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\PAL-  ■  ■  ' 
IDOLATRY. 


(I  I- 


CHICAGO: 

ADAM   LRAKi.   IM    ISI.ISHKR. 

77  '■'v:  7';  J  vcKsoN  Sikkki. 

iSSS. 


■M 


CETI 


Gl/'itnTquij ,  ChaU't'^  - 


TWELFTH    EDITION. 


ti 


Its  Reyelations  are  terrible  Indictments 
of  Popery."--Press. 


pifty  Years  i^  tl^^ 
^t^urel^  of  I^o/T\e. 

By    Father    Chiniquy. 

THE    APOSTI-K    OF    TEMl'ERAMCE    OF    CANADA. 

AtTIIOR     OF     "Tlia    MANfAI.    OF    TKMI'EKANCE,"     "THE  I'KIEST,   THE     WOMAN,      AND     TIIK 
CONFESSIONAL,"    "lAfAL  mOLATHV,"    "ROME   AND   EDl'CATION,"    ETC. 

V/iuid,  Jra(^ie  ar)d  pa8Gir>atif)(^  '19  Interest. 

Tliere  is  no  book  upon  the  Romish  controversy  so  comprehensive  as 
this  It  is  a  complete  picture  of  the  inner  workings,  aims  and  objects 
of  Popery.  It  is  from  tlie  experience  of  a  living  witress,  and  challenges 
contradiction.  It  is  a  large  but  verv  valuable  work,  and  is  fast  becoming  a 
standard  authoritv.  Two  editions  were  sold  in  three  months,  and  large 
orders  are  being'dailv  received  for  the  present  and  twelfth  edition  1  he 
book  commends  itself  to  the  American  people,  and  to  the  lovers  of  liberty 
everywhere.  To  Clergymen,  Students,  Teachers.  Politicians,  't  is  an  in- 
valuable book  of  reference.  Thousands  have  been  sold  in  Great  Britain, 
Ireland,  Canada,  Sandwich  Islands,  Australia,  Trance,  Italy,  bpam.  indiii, 

and  South  America. 

A  handsome  volume  of  832  pa^es,  printed  in  clear   type,  on  line 
tinted  paper.    It  is  bound  in  strong  cloth,  marbled  edges, 
t        and  gilt  stamp  on  side  and  back.     Oontaias  two 
portraits  (one  representing  him  in  priestly 
robes)  of  the  venerable  author. 

Sent  to  any  address  on  receipt  of  price,  $2.25. 
ADAM  CRAIG,  PUBLISHER, 

77    Sl   79   JACKSON    STREET,    CHICAGO. 


,* 


papal  Idolatry, 


AN   EXPOSURE 


a 


-OF    THE- 


Dognja  of  Tranguhgtaiifiiatioq 

AND  MARIOLATRY. 


DEDICATED  TO 


CARDINAL  GIBBONS, 

OF  BALTIMORE,  Md. 


WITH 

"THE  GOD  OF  ROME  EATEN  BY  A  RAT,"  THE  REASONS 

WHY  WE  MUST  PUT  OUR  TRUST  IN  JESUS  ALONE, 

AND  NOT  INVOKE  MARY,"  AND  "THE  REASONS 

WHY  I  WILL  NEVER  RETURN  TO  THE 

CHURCH  OF  ROME." 

BY 

Rbv.  Cmarlbs  Ci-iiniouy. 


CHICAGO: 
ADAM  CRAIG,  Publisher,  77-79  Jackson  Strket. 


TO 


HIS  mmm  th£  c,arbinal, 

M  you  are  the  ta.  ^  "  '  ,  ,„,,„,  „,„„.«  it  was 

Church  on  this  Cont.nc.t  o  Am  ^  „„^tru, 

^,«.*<.''«'»*»*^^-"-*^":''  *tr  is  verasalu^oum 


PAPAL  IDOLATRY 


►o«jio- 


KIRST    COXSIDEKATION. 

TRANSUBSTANTIATION  IS  IDOLATRY. 


ERRATA. 


Page  16, 

"  ^7, 

"  28, 

"  28, 

"  30, 

"  30, 

"  32, 

"  32, 

"  32, 

"  33. 

"  34. 

"  42, 

"  44. 

"  46. 

"  47. 

"  4«. 


Line     8,  "what" 
"      24,  "where  had" 
"      3,  "a  more" 
"     21,  "alters" 
"     44'  "enienv" 
"     35.  "occulus" 
"     36,  "  manasgue" 
I,  "  they  knew" 
"     24,  "invke" 
"     35.  "  her  cold" 
"     29,  "  is  only" 
"       2,  "spec" 
"     26,  "thief"  , 
"     28,  "  mey" 
"    41.  "might  be" 
"     34.  "this  idolatry" 
36,  "of  not  reading' 


Should  read  -who. 

"     where  he  had 
"a  most. 
"     altars  ^ 

"  "     occnlos. 

"     iiianusgHc. 
"     they  hnow. 
'     invoke. 
'•     her  bold, 
"  "is  not. 

^pes. 
"     sinner. 
"  "     may. 

"  "     might  not  be. 

"     this  is  idolatry 
"     of  reading. 


V^t/«»r«(..»»  v-/ 


Botli  Roman  Catholics  and  Protestants  acknowledge  that 
Idolatry  is  one  of  the  greatest  sins  that  man  can  commit'  But 
what  is  « Idolatry  .>"  It  is  the  giving  to  a  created  being  the 
respect,  adoration,  and  love  which  are  due  to  God  alone.  To 
make  a  god  with  our  own  hands,  or  to  worship  as  a  god  any  of 
the  creatures  which  are  on  earth,  in  the  air,  in  the  sea,  or  even 
m  heaven.,  is  Idolatry. 

(3) 


1 


PAPAL  IDOLATRY. 


IIRST    COXSIOEUATIOX. 

TRANSUeSTANTIATION  IS  IDOLATRY. 

In  order  that  both  Protestants    and    Roman  Catholics  may 
understand  that  we  are  perfectly  correct  when  we  say  that  the 
Church  of  Rome  makes  a  god  of  a  wafer,  and  is,  in  consequence 
an  idolatrous  church,  I  copy  here  the  blasphemous  decrees  of  the 
Council  of  Trent. 

Council  ok  Trent,  Holy  Sacrament  of  the  Eucharlst. 

Canon  I.  "If  any  shall  deny  that  in  the  .Sacrament  of  the  most  holy 
Luchanst,  there  is  contained  truly,  really,  and  substantially  the  body  and 
blood,  together  with  the  soul  and  divinity  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  but  shall 
sav  that  he  is  only  in  it  in  sign  or  figure,  or  power,  let  him  be  accursed  " 

Canon  II.  '«  If  any  man  shall  say  thatin  the  Sacrament  of  the  mostholy 
Luchanst,  there  remains  the  substance  of  bread  and  wine,  together  with  the 
body  and  1  lood  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  and  shall  deny  that  wonderful  and 
remarkable  conversion  of  the  whole  substance  of  the  bread  into  the  body  and 
the  whole  substance  of  the  wine  into  the  blood,  while  only  theanpearance  of 
bread  and  wine  remains,  which  conversion  the  Catholic  Church  most  aotlv 
calls  Iransubstantiation,  let  him  be  accursed."  ' 

Canon  VI  "If  any  man  shall  say,  that  in  the  holy  Sacrament  of  the 
hucharist,  Christ  the  only  begotten  Son  of  God,  is  not  to  be  adored,  and  that 
outwardly  with  the  worship  of  Latria,  and  therefore  that  he  ought  neither  to 
be  venerated  by  ai.y  especial  festive  celebration,  nor  carried  solemnly  about 
in  processions,  according  to  the  universal  and  laudable  rite  and  custom  of 
the  Church,  or  that  he  ought  not  publicly  to  be  exhibited  to  the  peopl'^  that 
he  may  be  worshipped,  and  that  the  worshippers  of  him  are  idolaters  let  him 
he  accursed. 

Canon  VIII.  "  If  any  one  shall  say,  that  Christ,  as  exhibited  In  the  Eu- 
charist, IS  only  spiritually  eaten,  and  not  also  sacramentally  and  reallv  let 
liim  be  accursed."  ■^' 

The  Catechism  of  the  Council  of  Trent  speaks  still  more 
clearly  and  says: — 

"The  Pastors  will  explain  that  in  the  holy  Eucharist  (the  consecrated 
wafer)  the  true  body  of  Jesus  Christ  is  contained  with  all  that  constitutes  a 
body  and  belongs  to  it,  such  as  the  Iwies  and  nerves,  and  that  is  a  whole 
Christ, 

Council  of  Trent  Catechist. 

Both  Roman  Catholics  and  Protestants  acknowledge  that 
Idolatry  is  one  of  the  greatest  sins  that  inan  can  commit.  But 
what  is  "Idolatry?"  It  is  the  giving  to  a  created  being  the 
respect,  adoration,  and  love  which  are  due  to  God  alone.  To 
make  a  god  with  our  own  hands,  or  to  worship  as  a  god  any  of 
the  creatures  which  are  on  earth,  in  the  air,  in  the  sea,  or  even 
in  heaven,  is  Idolatry. 

(3) 


On  the  Mount  Sinai,  in  the  midst  of  lightnincrs  ;m<l  thunder*. 
Cjod  Ahnijrhty  wrote  on  the  stone  with  his  own    fin^^'crs:—        ' 

"I  am  the  Lord  thy  God  which  have  bro„gl,t  thee  out  of  the  land  of 
Egypt,  out  of  tlie  house  of  bondage. 

"Thou  shall  not  have  other  gods  bviorc  me. 

"Thou  shait  not  make  unto  thee  any  graven  image,  or  any  likeness  „f 
anything  that  is  in  heaven  above,  or  that  is  in  the  earth  beneath,  or  thac  is  iu 
the  water  under  the  earth. 

"Thou  Shalt  not  how  down  thyself  to  them,  nor  serve  them;  for  I  the 
Lord  thy  God  am  a  jealous  God.  visiting  the  iniquties  of  the  fathers  upo„ 
the  children  unto  the  third  and  fourth  generation  of  them  that  liate  me  "*  * 
t.xodus  XX. 

God  has  never  proffered  any  words  more  plain,  simple,  aiui 
clear  than  these.  The  youn-  schoolboy,  as  well  as  the  most  pro- 
found philosopjier,  understands  that  by  these  words  God  Al- 
mighty for  ever  forbade  to  make  a  ^od  of  a  thiii'r  which  is  civi- 
ted,  even  if  that  created  thinj,^  dwells  in  "heaven'libove  " 

Now  what  does  the  Ri-ht  Rev.  Cardinal  Gibbons  and  all 
the  priests  of  Rome,  do  everv  inornin<rr  Do  thev  not  tike  i 
"created  thing,"  a  wafer,  in  their  hands,'aiul  do  the/ not  chan-e 
that  wafer  into  God.?  Do  they  not  adore  that  wafer,  when 
turned  into  God.?  Do  they  not  command  their  people  to  adore 
that  wafer  after  they  have  changed  it  int..  the  Supreme  Creator 
of  the  Universe  and  Saviour  of  the  World? 

What  was  the  crime  of  Aaron  and  the  people  in  the  desert 
when  they  made  the  golden  calf.?     Was  it  not  Idolatry?     But 
where   is  the  difference  between  the  crime  of    Aaron  and  the 
iniquity    of    Cardinal    Gibbons,    of     Baltimore,    and    all     the 
priests  of  Rome.?     The  only  difference  is  th;.t  the  Hrst  one  made 
a  god  of  the  melted  gold  bracelets  and  earrings  of  the  Israelites: 
while  the  latter  make  their  gods  of  a  little  dough  baked  between 
two    well-polished    heated   irons.     Aaron    said   to    the    people 
"Break  off  the  golden  earrings  which  are  in  the  ears  of  your 
wives,  of  your  sons,  and  of  your  daughters,  and  bring  them  unto 
me.     And  the  people  brake  off  the  golden  earrings  which  were 
in  their  ears,  and  brought  them  unto  Aaron.     And  he  received 
them  at  their  hand,  and   fashioned  it  with  a  graving  tool,  after 
he   had    made  it  a  molten   calf:  and    they  said,    'These   be   thy 
gods,  O  Israel,  which    brought  thee  out  of  the  land  of  Ecrypt ' '' 
Exodirs    xxxii.     Now    the    Roman   Catholic  Cardinal  Gibbons 
ot  Baltimore,    with  all   the  priests,    every  day,  say  to  their  ser- 
vants, "I  want  to  make  new  good  gods,  and  new  Christs:  1  have 
no  more  in  the  tabernacle.     Bring  some  flour  of    wheat,  mix  it 
with_  a  httle  water,  and  bake  the  dough  between  this  heated 
graving  tool."     And  the  servants  of  the  cardinal  and  the  priests 
oring  some  wheat  flour,  mix  it  with  a  little  water,  and   bake  the 
dough  between  that  heated  graving  tool.     And,  a  moment  after, 
the  bishop  and  the  priests,  holding  in  their  hands  those  wafers 
baked  in  that  heated  graving  tool,  say,  "This  is  Jesus  Christ  the 


)f 


LumhofGod.  .  .  This  is  God  Himself,  who,  being  incarnatctl, 
has  saved  you  on  the  cross.  .  .  Come  and  adore  him."  And 
the  people  say  in  their  heart,  and  they  sing  with  their  lips,  "This 
is  our  incarnateil  god,  who,  on  the  cross  died  to  save  us. 
Let  us  adore  him."  And  prostrating  their  faces  to  the  dust, 
they  adore  their  god  whom  their  priest  has  just  made  before 
their  eyes  with  a  wafer  V)aked  in  a  heated  graving  tool! 

Is  not  the'  idolatry  of  Cardinal  Gibbons  and  his  priests  as 
gross  and  criminal  as  the  idolatry  of  Aaron  and  his  people?  Is 
not  the  wafer  god  of  the  Pope  as  contemptiole,  ridiculous,  im- 
potent, powerless  as  the  gold  calf  god  of  Aaron?  Are  not  the 
two  forms  of  idolatry  as  insulting  to  the  great  God,  who  has  said: 
''Thou  shalt  not  make  unto  thee  any  graven  image,  or  any  like- 
ness of  anything  that  is  in  heaven  above,  or  that  is  in  the  earth 
beneath,  or  that  is  in  the  water  under  the  earth;  thou  shalt  not 
bow  down  thyself  to  them  nor  serve  them?" 

In  order  that  both  the  Roman  Cath<.lics  and  the  Protestants 
may  better  understand  the  abominable  idolatry  of  Rome,  and 
how  the  Pope  is  absolutely  and  publicly  mocking  and  daring 
God  Almighty  in  the  confection  of  the  wafer-gcd,  I  will  put  the 
commandment  of  God  and  the  orders  of  the  Pop*^  face  to  face. 

God  Almighty  to  Moses  and  to  all  The  Pope  of  Rome  to  the  blsliopa 

and  to  the  priests,  and  to  tliC   whole 
world : — 

"Thuu  shalt  make  unto  you  graven 
images  (called  wafers)  and  a  likeness 
of  something  which  is  in  heaven 
(tlie  body  of  Christ),  and  you  shall 
bow  down  yourselves  and  serve 
them." — Council  of  Trent. 


the  world  :- 

"  Thou  shalt  not  make  unto  tlice 
any  graven  image,  or  any  likeness  of 
anything  that  i>  in  heaven  above,  or 
that  is  in  the  earth  beneath,  or  that  is 
in  the  water  under  the  earth.  Thou 
shalt  not  bow  down  thyself,  nor  serve 
them."— i?.v.  XX. 


Was  it  possible  for  the  devil  to  mock  God,  and  dare  Him  in  a 
more  frightful  way  by  inspiring  the  Pope  of  Rome  with  these 
rules  and  commandments  of  his  councils?  Is  not  the  Pope  of 
Rome  renewing  the  avvful  mystery  of  iniquity  performed  just 
after  Adam  and  Eve  had  been  created? 


Almighty  God  said  to  Adam : — 
"  Of  every  tree  of  the  garden  thou 
niayest  freely  eat. 

"But  of  the  tree  of  the  knowledge 
of  good  and  evil,  thou  shalt  not  eat 
of  it.  For  in  the  day  that  thou  eatest 
thereof  thou  shall  surely  die." — 
(ffuesis  ii.,  ]6,  17. 


And  the  serpent  said  to  the  woman : 
"Yea,  hath  God  said,  ye  r^hall  not 
eat  of  every  tree  of  the  garden .-' 

"Ye  shall  not  surely  die:  For 
God  doth  know  that  in  the  day  ye 
eat  thereof,  then  your  eyes  shall  be 
opened,  and  ye  shall  be  as  gods, 
knowing  good   and   evil." — Genesis 


111.,  1-5- 
When  God  Almighty  says: — "Thou  shalt  not  make  unto  thee 

any  graven  images  of  anything  that  is  in  heaven;  .  .  thou  shalt 

not  bow  down  and  serve  them,"  the  Pope  boldly  says,  "  Thou 

■-halt  make  engraven   images  of  something  which  is  in  heaven, 

and  thou  shalt  bow  down   thyself    and    serve  them."     And  like 

the  guilty  mother  Eve,  who   shuts  her  ears  to  the  voice  of  God, 


and  forgets  his  solemn  command  to  listen  to  the  voice  of  Snt'in 
speakmg  through  the  serpent,  so  the  guilty  ChurTof  Rime' 
forgets  the  solemn  laws  of  God,  to  foflow';he  orcSs  of  S  t  n 
^eakmg  through   the   popes.     I   know  that  Cardinal  Gibbons 
wi  h  h.s  priests  will  answer  me:  "Jesus  Christ  has  given  -■  the 

HeTafd^Th-P"""  'Vr^""  ^'^''  ^'^''^^  '"^"  ou.^  God  wl    t 
He  said,  'This  IS  my  body,     .     .  this  is  my  blood.     .     .     Do 

this    in   remembrance  of    Me.'"     But  I   answer:  "Christ    has 

ever  received  the  power  from   His  Father  to  do  a  thin-  tha 

the  Eternal  Father  had  forever  forbidden."  .  .  On  Mount  Si   h 

that  Almighty  God  had  given  his  command,  »  Ne^rto  mre 

an    engraven    image    of    anything  .  .  .  and '  turn  that  ^  a  en 

image  into  God         .bow  down  before  it,  and  adore  it.'^    Has 

God  ever  repeaed  that  law?     No!  He  can  not!  For  himself 

speaking  through  Christ,  has  said,  "Heaven  and  earth  shall    a 

away    but  r^y  word  shall   never  pass  away."     Has  no    Q    • 

said   "I  come  to  fulfil  the  commancfments  of^iiy  Father-'  How 

could  he  have  said  these  words  if  he  had  given\o  the  oopes  am 

tnemal  .?     No!     Christ  -,  ould  not  allow  His  apostles  and  His 

■ind tlore' i"^  W^'^  "''^l^  "^  '^^^  "^^^"  '^'  ^-•"  '^  ^^  g!k 
and  adoie  it.     \V  e  know  He  said,  "This  is  mv  body"   (Luke 

xxn.  19).     But  this  was  in  a  figurative  way,  to  tell  them  tlr        e 

bread  was  to  be  broke,  and  eaten  bv  themf'that  thev  ntl  t  e  e  r 

lemember  "H.s  body  nailed  to  the  cross  for  them  "' 

W.  .'"""!?"'  '^^ff '-^^^e  h^^'-''-  Christ  saving,  "Thi^  is  mv  bodv  " 
We  hear  the    Holy    Ghost  and  Jesus  Christ  Himself  saving:  ^  ' 

kiUed.'^'''"  '""'  '•"'  ""''  "'  ""'^^••^^•--1  bread,  when  the  Passarrr  nn.st  be 

7.  "And  he  sent  Peter  and  John  saving- 

8.  "  Prep-ire  us  the  Passover  that  we  mav  eat.     . 

?o    .:  A nH  ^- ■  '• ',    ""'°  ."'•"'  ^^'^^'■'^  ^"''^  tlio"  that'  we  prepare ' 

readV'^"'^^'"''"'''""  •""  '  ''"'^'  uPPer-room  furnished:  there  make 

reaiy;;^"A?.%;^'"'  ''^"^  '""'  ""'  '^^  '''''  ""^°  "--=  ^^'  ^'--V  ' ^" 

wit'S'hi,^"'  "''"  ''"  '""'■  "^^  ^^'"^  '^^  «-t  d°-n.  ■'^ncl  the  twelve  apostles 

..:^  w;th  ^^^^^jsi^r^Cffen"'  '"^"^  '-'^'^ '  '^^-  ^-'-^  *°  -^  '■^'■^-  z-^- 

filled  ,:  the^  KinVdr  ofooi'-^'"  ""^  '^">'  "'"^^  ^^  '•--^-  """H  it  be  ful- 
itamo^gyourteTvt.''"  "''^'  '"'  ^'''  "^^""^^'-^"^  -'^-  ^akethis  and  divide 
KiSd'om^of  G^d  S -.".'e'  "'"  "°' '"""^  "^ ^^^  ^'"'^  °^  ^'^^  --  ""^i.  the 


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19.  "And  he  took  bread,  and  gave  thanks  and  brake  it,  and  gave  unto 
them  saying:  This  is  my  body  which  is  given  for  you;  this  do  in  remem- 
brance of  me."     I.ukc  xxii. 

It  is  true  that  here  Christ  says,  "  This  is  my  body."  But  the 
very  moment  before,  looking  on  the  roasted  lamb,  he  had  said, 
"This  is  the  passover.  I  want  to  eat  the  passover.  Prepare  the 
passover.     I  have  desired  to  eat  this  passover  with  you." 

Could  Christ  really  kill,  prepare  and  eat  the  passover  ?  No. 
Never.  For  the  "passover"  was  the  passage  of  the  exterminat- 
ing angel  over  Egypt,  when  he  killed  the  first-born  of  every 
family,  on  the  door-post  of  which  the  blood  of  the  Lamb  was 
not  seen.  That  "passage"  or  passover  of  the  angel  could  neither 
be  killed,  roasted,  nor  eaten:  for  the  simple  good  reason  that  a 
passage,  a  passover,  can  neither  be  killed,  roasted,  nor  eaten. 
But  as  the  Lamb  was  killed  and  eaten  to  make  the  Israelites  re- 
member the  "passsge,"  of  the  angel  over  Egypt,  that  Lamb 
was  called  the  "passage,"  the  "passover."  Then  Christ,  with  all 
the  Israelites,  instead  of  saying,  "We  will  kill,  cook,  and  eat 
the  Lamb  which  makes  us  remember  the  "passover;"  thev  said 
"  We  will  kill,  prepare  and  eat  the  "passover," 

So  Christ,  having  given  the  bread  to  be  eaten  bv  his  disciples, 
that  they  might  remember  his  crucified  body,  (do  this  in  remem- 
brance of  me),  had  to  call  that  bread  "his  body."  It  was  then 
as  it  is  now  :  "  When  a  thing  is  chosen  to  represent  another  thing, 
it  is  called  by  the  name  of  the  thing  it  represents."  For  instance, 
when  a  man  shows  the  portrait  of  his  wife  and  children  to  his 
friends,  he  does  not  generally  say,  "This  is  the  portrait,  the  re- 
membrance of  my  dear  wife  and  my  beloved  children;"  he 
simply  says,  "  This  is  my  wife,  these  are  mv  children."  When 
one  looks  at  the  large  photographs  of  Cardinal  Gibbons  he 
says,  "  This  is  Cardinal  Gibbons;  look  at  his  fine  *jolly  face; 
see  his  jovial,  or  dignified  mien."  Nobody,  except  fools  can  be 
tempted  to  think  and  say  that  it  is  really  the  amiable  Roman 
Catholic  Cardinal  of  Baltimore,  because  he  has  heard  "This  is 
Cardinal  Gibbons."  He  knows  very  well  that  it  is  only 
some  paper,  with  the  shades  and  colors  put  Iw  the  artist.  Never- 
theless, he  calls  that  paper  and  those  shailes  and  colors  "Cardinal 
Gibbons,"  for  the  simple  reason  that  it  .is,  then,  to  make  them 
remember  his  Lordship. 

So  Christ  said,  "  Kill  the  passover,"  though  the  passover  could 
not  be  killed.  He  said,  "  Prepare  the  passover,"  though  the 
passover  could  not  be  prepared.  He  said,  "  I  eat  this  passover," 
though  he  could  not  eat  the  passover.  So  he  said,  "  This  is  my 
body,"  though  it  was  not  his  body.  He  said,  "Eat  this,  mv 
body,"  though  they  could  not  eat  his  body. 

But,  once  more:  As  the  bread  was  the  representation  of  his 
body,  Christ  had  to  call  that  bread,  "  body."  Christ  could  not 
eat  his  own  body;  but  he  could  eat  what  was  to  represent  his 
body.     He  could  not  possibly  give  his  body  to  be  eaten  and  his 


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blood  to  be  drunk,  without  making  his  disciples  anthropophao-j. 
But  he  could  give  what  represented  his  body  and  his  blood  to  be 
eaten  and  drunk  without  being  guilty  of  that  disgusting  and 
cnmnial  cannibalism.  It  is  true  that 'Christ  said,  "This  is  my 
body."  But  do  you  not  read  in  Genesis  Ixix.  9,  "  Judah  is  a 
lion's  whelp."  In  the  verse  14,  "Issachar  is  a  strong  ass." 
Was  Judah's  father  a  lion,  and  Issachar's  father  an  ass?  No. 
But  these  were  figures  of  sjieech,  just  as  when  Jesus  said,  "This 
IS  my  body." 

St.  Paul,  speaking  of  the  sinners,  says,  "Their  throat  is  a 
sepulchre."  Does  the  Cardinal  of  Baltimore  really  believe 
that  the  throat  of  sinners  is  a  sepulchre?  No.  Then  he  has 
no  more  reason  to  believe  that  the  body  of  Christ  had  taken  the 
place  of  the  bread,  after  he  had  said,  "This  is  my  body."  In 
both  cases  the  verb  is  means  (represents)  and  brings  to  the  mind 
a  memorial.  David  says.  Psalm  cxxi.  105:— "Thy  word  is  1 
lamp  unto  my  feet."  Will  ever  the  Pope  sufficiently  forget  all 
the  laws  of  common  sense,  to  tell  us  that  the  word  of  God  is 
really  a  lampp  And  when  Christ  says  "I  am  the  door"  (John 
X.  9),  "I  am  the  true  vine"  (John  xv.  i ),  had  he  really  the  in- 
tention to  make  us  believe  that  he  was  a  door,  or  a  vine?  Does 
not  Paul,  speaking  of  the  "Rock"  from  which  Moses  drew  the 
waters  in  th(,  desert,  say,  "  That  Rock  was  Christ?" 

Will  the  Roman  Catholic  bishops  and  priests,  some  day,  trv 
to  persuade  us  that  the  Rock  was  really  Christ,  his  body,  soul, 
and  divinity  because  the  Holy  Ghost  says,  "That  rock  was 
^hristr  No.  They  acknowledge  that  the  Rock  zvas  no* 
Christ,  though  Paul  says  "  The  Rock  u^as  Christ.  It  was  only 
;i  hgure,,a  type,  a  memorial  of  Christ,  and  because  it  was  so  it  was 
called  "Christ."  So  when  our  Saviour  says,  "This  (  bread )  is  my 
nody.  .  .  Do  this  in  remembrance  of  me,"  he  makes  us  un- 
derstand that  the  bread  was  called  "his  body,"  because  it  was 
presented  to  us  that  we  might  remember  "his  body." 

Jesus  speaking  to  the  Samaritan  woman,  said,  "<rhe  water 
that  I  shall  give  him  shall  be  in  him  a  well  of  water  sprincring  up 
into  everlasting  life."  (John  iv.  14).  Why  does  not  the  Church 
ot  Kome  try  to  persuade  those  who  believe  in  Christ  that  they 
ha\  e  such  a  large  well  of  ^vater  within  themselves,  that  it  will 
How  ev-eii  dui'ing  all  eter^nty?  That  well  of  water  which  is  in 
t'very  Christian  to  quench  his  thirst,  is  just  like  the  body  of 
Christ,  which  is  eaten  by  every  one  of  his  disciples,  that  they 
may  never  be  hungry.  Both  are  most  beautiful  and  simple 
hgures  when  taken  in  the  sense  they  were  gi.en;  but  both  turn 
int..  a  ridiculous  and  disgusting  idea  when  taken  as  a  material 
realitv. 


SECONO    CONSIDKH  ATIoN. 

TRANSUBSTANTIATION  IS  THE  MOvST  DEGRAD- 
ING FORM  OF  IDOLATRY. 

When  the  Persians  adore    the    rising    sun,    they  give  their 
homages  to  the  greatest  and  mo-t  glorious  being  which  is  pre- 
sented to  •ur  human  vision.      That  magniHcent  fiery  orb,  which 
rises  as  a  giant  every  morning  from  behind  the  horizon,  to  pass 
over  the  world  and  pour  everywhere  its  floods  of  heat,  light  and 
life,  can  not  be  contemplated  without  feelings  of  respect,  admira- 
tion, and  awe.     Man  must  raise  his  eyes  up  to  see   that  glorious 
sun;  he  must  take  up  the  eagle's  wings  to  follow  its  giant  march 
throughout  the  myriads  of  worlds  which  are  suspended  over  our 
heads.      It    is    easy    to   understand   that  poor    fidlen    and  blind 
humanity  may  take  that  great  being  for  a  God.   Would  not  this 
world  perish   without  the   sunr     What  would   become  of  the 
nations    which   inhabit    the   earth  without  its    light   and    heat? 
Would   not  every  thing  perish  and  die,   if  the  sun  would  forget 
to  come  every  day,  and  make  us  bathe  and  swim  in  its  oceans  of 
light  and   life.     Then,  when  I  see  the  Persian  priests  of  the  sun, 
in  ther  magnlHcenl  temple,  waiting,  with  their  censors  in  hand, 
for  the  appearance   of   its   tirst    rays,   to  chant   their   melodious 
hymns  and  sing  their  sublime  canticles  to  its  glory,  I  know  their 
errors,  but  I  can  understand  it.      I  was  going  to  say,  I  can  almost 
■excuse  it.     1  feel  an  immense  compassion  for  those  poor  Idolaters. 
But,  at  the  same  time,  I  feel  that  they  are  raised  above  the  dust 
of  this  earth,  and  that  their  minds  must  be  filled  with  sentiments 
of  gratitude  and  adoration  f(n-  that  great  being.  Their  intelligence 
and  their  souls  can  not  but  receive  some  sparks  of  light  and  life 
from  the  contemplation  of  that  inexhaustible  focus  of  light  and  life. 
But  the  poor  deluded  Roman  Catholic !   Is  he  not  a  thousand  times 
more  worthy  of  our  compassion  and  our  tears,  when  we  see  him 
prostrated  in  the  presence  of  that  small  "wafer-god,"  which  the 
servant  girl  of  the  priest  has  baked  a  few  hours  before  in  her 
kitchen?     Is  it  possible  to  see  a  spectacle  more  disgraceful  and 
ignominious  than  a  multitude  of  men  and  women  prostrating  their 
faces  to  the  dust,  to  adore  a  god  whom  the  rats  and  the  mice  have  a 
thousaiul  times,  dragged  and  devouied  in  their  dark  little  holes? 
Where  are  the  rays  of  light  and  life  from  that  little  cake?     In- 
stead of  being  enlarged  and  elevated,  at  the  approach  of  that  ridic- 
ulous modern  divinitv,  is  not  human  i'ltelligence  contracted,  dim- 
inished,paralyzed,chilled,  struck  with  idiotism  and  death  at  its  feet 
Can  we  be  surprised  that  the  Roman  Catholic  nations  are  so 
fast  falling  down  into  tiie  abyss  of  infidelity  and    atheism,  when 
they  hear  their  priests  telling  them  that  this  contemptible  wafer 
is  tile  great  God  who  had  created  heaven  and    earth  at   the   be- 
ginning, and  saved  this  perishing  world  by  dying  on   the   cross, 
some  ei''iitcen  hundred  vears  ago? 


lO 


'  w^^c;:^H:r;^^^j;s:i:r?^;^s-^  r  ^'-  fe.  of  the 

mfamous  and  outrageous  irpo^turehrfh""''f'"  ""^^'^  ^'^'''P  ^^ 
from  the  minds  of  fhe  nation^w^nrn  r  ,  f 'V'"^''^^''^^PPe«'-e^ 
^vith  intlligence,  as  tlL  F  e   d^^^^^^^  ^^'''^^  ^'^f  "^^re  endowed 

countries,  Imd  a.sk  the  neoole  if  H  k  ,"  P'^^P'"'  ^°  ^o  those 
can  make  a  god  out  of  S  '  ^1'^/  ^'^jr?  '^''''  ^'^^'"-  P'^iests 
in  disgust  a.^  laught^-r^u^;;!;^^,-;!^;"-"^  their  shcAuders 

^^1^^^^'^^^^  ^r  '--  --  than 

the  earned  and  the  intelligen  !N^,"s^  iS  '     .  T'"  ' '"  "^'"^'■^  ^^ 
made  with  a  httle  cake  is   to  d-iv  hlr  '''''^°''^i^'  doctrme  of  a  god 

ada.  Spain,  etc.,  only  hv  'some  'oWwr  '"  ^'f"'^'^'  ^^''»'>'  ^^'"- 
people  who  cannot  vvrieZre'dthh-T"  '"''  P"°''  '^"^•■='"- 
;ry  to  behove  it;  they  makcT's'lt'^r   l^^'^^^.    -^^^e   .;est 


f...   .    u  1-     "".'""'^  ^v"te  nor  read 

after  ha^•ing  been  the  ohjecTof  thei  .dor  .^r  1  '^'^''''''  ^'''-'^'' 
century.  But,  fortunate! v  the  numh:  1  "'•'  ^^''  '""''^  ^han  a 
god  liad  not  lort  a  single  .'o  '  " ft"  H  '"'.^Tf '  °^  ^^^''^  ^'^'^'^f 
ceased  divinity  with  due  1  o  oi;  h '  h  i;i  '^  ''"/■'^''  ^^^"■'-  ''- 
-^^J  dark  forests,  and  had  soon 'come  Ivcl  .-?/''  "'l^^'^"''  ^'^'^'P 
voimger  Ining  white  elephant      tZ        i  •'   '*  '"--''•"   ''"'^ 

-n  triumph  alfover  the  ki   o'  !;,   I- h   '"''''^>'/^"^'"'''J  was  carried 
value  to  his  neck,  gold  clo'i:" 

•"«!  ^li^^monds  on  hirbaci  i;,  ,!  ,V7V'^"  '"^^■'^^'^t  pearls 
dies,  the  hvmns  oi  ado ra  -'on  ,  ' V  f'  "/  '''"  ^^^^^^^est  melo- 
plden  censors  whicl  e  e  v  'nl  •esV''  T"''  ?^  '"^^^"^^  ^'-^'^  ^he 
y  found  god  was  instal  c'  ^  his  m?  -fi^'  '"  '^'^  ^^''^"^'^'  t'^^'  "^'^ 
from  morning  to  nIo|n  he  k'  •u^^mW?'^?"' '',?P'^^'  ^'"''  th^^''^ 
who  recogni.re  him  %r  their  '^1  ''  ^'^  '^''  '"'"'""'^  ^^  ^iames, 
All  this  isvery  sad,  humiliating!     Yes' 

an^M^:;:;:;r :!S  ^-;!:f  i^"..^iliating.han  taking 
world;  it  is  to  see  the  Pone  of  Ron  '^'''■\  ^'-^jated  and  saved  thi; 
lions  of  blind  and  deluded  .In  '  ''''^''  ^'''  hmuWed  of  mil- 

ble  wafer,  bakccfbetw  "    w"  heS"  "^"'  ''1'''''  '''  -"tempt!, 
great,  eter.ial,  almightv  S,^rc  l;^^^^^^^  '?,"''  ""''  '"^^'"^'"^  ^^  as  the 
The  elepharit  of  Siam  is  s'n    1  «,V^'-'Ven  and  earth! 

with  the  niodern  divini";  ^f",  :'-]p;;r''^T^^t'  T'T  ^""^P^-' 
taken  a-  the  symbol  of  strength  n^  ^"/'t  .^'^Pliant  may  be 
Let  a  man  go  and  insult  o'uac'h'^,"'"''"''^'  P'^^''^"'^'^'  «tc. 
with  his  mighty  trunk  he  w  iT t ke'T'  '"  ''"  P''°^^^*  himself; 
very  high  in  the  air,  and  causl  hln".'  T^^T^'  ^'^™^^'  '^'"^  "P 
ground.     He  can  crush  h  s  iZ  ^,".  ^'*'^  '"^  ^°'"Pse    on    the 

'-•^friends,  and  sa^Xm  in  ;S  hit  o";  '''''  K'^^'  P^^-^ 
-t.on  and  strength  in  that  el^i^nr^^l^'^:;,,^-'^^  1^1^: 


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self  from  one  place  to  the  other.  He  can  move  with  his  feet, 
see  with  his  eyes,  hear  with  his  ears. 

But  look  at  the  divinity  of  Rome.  Come  and  see  its  hands  in 
that  wafer;  they  cannoi  move!     The  feet,  they   cannot  walk! 

The  eyes,  they  cannot  see!     The  ears,  they  cannot  hear! 

There  is  neither  life,  nor  strength,  nor  motion  in  this  Roman 
Catholic  divinity.  Let  a  rat  or  a  mouse  come  and  bite  the 
elephant-god  of  Siam,  and  you  will  see  how  he  will  instantly 
punish  it.  But  let  a  rat  or  a  mouse  come  and  attack  the  poor 
defenceless  wafer-god  of  the  Pope,  as  it  very  often  occurs,  and 
you  will  see  how  that  modern  Majesty  will  be  powerless  to  pro- 
tect itself,  and  how  it  will  soon  be  crushed  under  the  teeth  of  his 
weak  enemies,  and  engulphed  into  their  stomachs,  to  be  digested 
as  a  crumb  of  common  bread. 


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TIIIUD    CONSIDBKATION. 

GOD     HIMvSELF    TURNS     THE     WAFER-GOD    OF 

ROME  IMTO  RIDICULE. 

So  speaks  our  almighty  and  eternal  God,  through  his  Prophet 
Isaiah,  ch.  xliv. 

9  "They  that  make  a  graven  image  are  all  of  them  vanity:  and  their  de- 
lectable things  sliall  not  profit;  and  they  are  their  own  witnesses;  they  see 
not  nor  know;  that  they  may  be  ashamed.  Who  haMi  formed  a  god,  or 
molten  a  graven  image  that  is  profitable  for  nothing?  Bcliold,  all  his  fellows 
shall  be  ashamed,  and  the  workmen  they  are  of  men:  let  them  all  be  gath- 
ered togeth"'-  let  them  stand  up;  yet  they  shall  fear,  and  they  shall  be 
ashamed  together.  The  smiths  with  the  tongs  both  worketh  in  the  coals, 
and  fashioneth  it  with  hammers,  and  worketh  it  with  the  strength  of  his 
arms:  yea,  he  is  hungry,  and  liis  strength  faileth;  he  drinketh  no  water,  and 
is  faint.  The  carpenter  st^-elcheth  out  his  rule;  he  marketh  it  out  with  a 
line;  he  fitteth  it  with  planes,  and  he  marketh  it  out  with  the  compass,  and 
maketli  it  after  the  figure  of  a  man.  that  it  may  remain  in  the  house.  He 
heweth  him  down  cedars,  and  taketh  the  cypress  and  the  oak,  which  he 
strengtheneth  for  himself  among  the  trees  of  the  forest;  he  planteth  an  ash. 
and  the  rain  doth  nourish  it.  Then  shall  it  be  for  a  man  to  burn ;  for  he  will 
take  thereof,  and  warm  himself;  yea.  he  kindleth  it,  and  baketh  bread,  yea. 
he  niaketh  a  god,  and  worshippeth  it;  he  maketh  it  a  graven  image, "and 
faileth  down  thereto.  He  burneth  part  thereof  in  the  fire;  with  part  thereof 
he  eateth  flesh;  he  roasteth  roast,  and  is  satisfied;  yea,  he  warmeth  himself, 
and  saith.  Aha,  I  am  warm,  I  have  seen  the  fire:  and  the  resident  thereof  he 
maketh  a  god,  even  his  graven  image;  he  faileth  down  unto  it,  and  worship- 
peth it,  and  prayeth  unto  it,  and  saith,  Deliver  ine;  for  thou  art  mv  god. 
They  have  not  known  nor  understood:  for  he  hath  shut  their  eyes,  thatthev 
cannot  see;  and  their  nearts,  that  tliey  cannot  understand.  And  none  con- 
sidereth  in  his  heart,  neither  is  their  knowledge  nor  understanding  to  say,  I 
have  burned  part  of  it  in  the  fire;  yea,  also  I  have  baked  bread  upon  the 
coals  thereof;  I  have  roasted  flesh  and  eaten  it:  and  shall  I  make  the  residue 
thereof  an  abomination.?  shall  I  fall  down  to  the  stock  of  a  tree.'  He  feed- 
eth  on  ashes:  a  deceived  heart  hath  turned  him  aside,  that  he  cannot  deliver 
his  soul,  nor  say.  Is  there  not  a  lie  in  my  right  hand.?" 

Who  can  read  those  words  of  the  old  prophet  without  finding 
in  them  the  condemnation  of  the  monstrous  imposure  and  idol- 
atry of  the  wafer-god. 


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Let  us  put  face  to  face  the  words  of  God  and  the  facts  con- 
nected with  the  confection  and  the  usages  of  the  wafei-Lx„d  of 
Rome,  to  see  the  perfect  similarity  between  the  old  idolatry  of 
the  days  of    Isaiah  and  the  modern  idolatry  of  Rome. 


ISAIAH. 

They  that  make  a  graven  image 
are  all  of  them  vanity;  and  their 
delectable  things  cannot  profit;  and 
they  are  their  own  witnesses,  thev 
see  not,  nor  know:  that  thev  may  be 
ashamed. 

Who  hath  formed  a  god  or  molten 
a  graven  image  that  is  profitable  for 
nothing.' 

The  smith  with  the  tongs  both 
Avorkelh  in  the  coals,  and  fashioned  it 
with  hammers,  and  worketh  it  with 
the  strength  of  his  arms. 

The  carpenter  stretcheth  out  his 
rule,  he  maketh  it  ont  with  a  line:  he 
titteth  it  with  planes;  and  he  marketh 
it  ont  with  compass,  and  maketli  it 
with  a  figure  of  a  man,  that  it  may 
rema!n^in  the  house. 

Glle  heweth  him  down  cedars,  and 
taketh  the  cypress  and  the  oak,  which 
he  strengthenetli  for  himself  among 
the  trees  of  the  forest;  he  planteth  an 
ash,  and  the  rain  doth  nourish  :t 

Then  shall  it  be  for  a  man  to  burn ; 
for  he  will  take  thereof,  and  warm 
himself;  yea,  he  kindleth  it;  and 
baketh  his  bread ;  j-ea,  he  maketh  a 
god,  and  worshippeth  it ;  he  maketh  it 
a  graven  image,  and  falleth  down 
tliereunto.— /.svj/rt//  xllv.  /j. 

He  burneth  part  thereof  in  the  tire; 
with  part  thereof  he  eateth  fiesh ;  he 
ropited  roast  and  is  satisfied;  vea,  he 
warmeth  himself,  and  saith,  "Aha,  I 
am  warm,  I  have  seen  the  fire—." 
Isaiah  xliv.  ib. 

And  the  residue  thereof  lie  maketh 
a  god,  even  his  graven  image :  he  fall- 
eth down  unto  it,  and  praveth  unto  it 
and  saith,  "Deliver  me;  ifor  thou  art 
my  god."  -/Wa//  \liv.  ly. 

They  have  not  known  or  under- 
stood: for  he  hath  shut  their  eves, 
that  they  cannot  see ;  and  their  hearts 
that  they  cannot  understand.  —Isaiah 
■\/iv.  rS. 

And  none  considereth  in  his  heart 
neither  is  there  knowledge  nor  uiui-r- 
standing  to  say,  I  ha\  c  burned  part  of 


THE    POPE    ANTJ    HIS    PARVY. 

Every  day  they  make  innumerable 
graven  images  .  .  .  which  are  all 
vanity:  their  delectable  things  can- 
not profit  them.  They  are  their  own 
witnesses:  they  see  not,  nor  know: 
that  they  may 'be  ashamed. 

The  pope  and  his  priests  every  day 
form  a  god  with  a  molten  or  baked 
image  that  is  profitable  for  nothing. 
The  pope  and  his  priests  put  thetr 
irons  on  the  coal;  and  with  the 
strength  of  their  hands  thev  work  the 
image  rnd  bake  the  wafers,  whicii 
they  will  adore  as  their  god. 

Tlie  Pope  and  his  priests  every 
day  bake  the  waf-r,  on  wliich  they 
have  put  the  figure  of  a  man,  with 
their  round  knife;  t|iev  cut  it  nicely, 
that  it  may  remafn  in  "the  house  (tlie 
tabernacle  of  the  church). 

The  Pope  and  the  priests  every  day 
select  the  finest  flour  of  the  wheat 
raised  by  farmers,  and  ground  be- 
tween the  grinding  stones  of  a  mill 
and  passed  through  the  finest  sieves 
of  the  countr^■. 

The  Popes  and  the  priests  take  a 
part  of  the  flour,  and  make  fine  loaves 
of  bread  and  sweet  cakes,  with  it;  and 
the  other  parts  of  the  flour  is  baked 
into  wafers,  on  which  there  are  gra- 
ven images  which  they  worship,  and 
before  which  they  fall  down  thereto. 
The  Popes  and  the  priests  with  a 
part  of  that  fine  flour  make  fine  pas- 
try, and  eat  them,  and  are  satisfied  • 
and  they  say,  «  Aha,  we  are  sstisfied,' 
we  have  eaten  well." 

And  the  residue  thereof  thev  make 
a  god,  a  god  with  an  engraven'image. 

They  fall  down  unto  it,  and  pray 
unto  it,  and  sav.  "Deliver  us;  foV 
thou  art  my  god," 

The  Popes  and  their  priests  have 
tiot  known  nor  understood :  for  He 
(God  Almighty)  hath  shut  their  eyes, 
that  they  cannot  see.  and  their  hearts 
that  they  cannot  understand. 

A. id  none  of  the  Popes  and  the 
priests  have  any  knowledge  and  un- 
derstanding to  say,  "  I  iia\e  baked  a 


>3 


it  in  afire;  vea  also  1  have  Imked 
bread  upon  the  coals  thereof ;  I  have 
roasted  tlesh,  and  eaten  it:  and  shall 
I  make  the  residue  thereof  an  abomi- 
nation ?  shall  I  fall  down  to  the  stock 
of  a  tree?  -Isaiah  xliv.  ig. 

He  feedeth  on  ashes:  a  deceived 
heart  has  turned  him  aside,  that  he 
c^nnnot  deliver  his  soul  nor  saj,  "  Is 
there  not  a  lie  in  my  right  hand?" — 
Jsaia//  xHt.  20. 


part  of  that  dough  to  make  a  loaf  of 
bread  on  the  fire.  ,  .  .  yea,  I  have 
baked  pastrv  with  another  part  there- 
of; and  shidl  I  make  the  residue 
thereof  an  aboniinationr  shall  I  fall 
down  before  a  cake  and  a  vile  wafer? 
The  I'ope,  with  his  priests,  feedeth 
on  ashes  ;  a  deceitful  heart  has 
turned  him  aside,  that  he  cannot  de- 
liver his  soul,  nor  say,  "  Is  there  not 
a  lie  in  mv  right  hand?" 


[•"OUnTIl     CONSIOEKATION. 

OUR  SAVIOUR  JESUS  CHRIST  FORETELLS  THE 
ABOMINABLE  IDOLATRY  OF  THE  WAFER- 
CHRISTS  OF  ROME,  AND  WARNS  HIS  DIS- 
CIPLES AGAINST  IT. 

We  read  this  remarkable  prophecy  about  the  false  Christs  of 
Rome  in  Matthew,  ch.  xxiv.,  v.  33,  33,  34,  35,  26. 

"  And  except  those  davs  snail  be  shortened,  there  should  no  flesh  be  saved  r 
but  for  the  elect's  sake  those  davs  shall  be  shortened. 

»  Then,  if  any  man  sa  v  unto  you,  Lo  here  is  Christ  or  there,  believe  it  not. 

"  For  there  shall  arise  false  Christs  and  false  prophets,  and  shall  show- 
great  signs  and  wonders;  insomuch  that,  if  it  were  possible,  they  shall 
deceive  the  very  elect. 

"  Behold,  I  have  told  you  before. 

"  Wherefore,  if  thev  shall  say  unto  you:  Behold,  he  is  in  the  desert;  go 
not  forth;  behold.  He  is  in  the  secret  chambers ;  believe  it  not." 

The  Son  of  God  prophesies,  here,  four  things  about  the 
false  Christs,  against  the  worship  of  ivhom  he  warns  us. 

1st.     There  will  be  many  of  those  false  Christs. 

2d.     Sometimes  they  wiU  be  here  and  sometimes  there. 

3d.     That  it  will  be  told  of  that  Christ  that  he  is  in  the  desert. 

4th.  That  the  false  Christs  will  dwell  in  secret  chambers. 
Those  four  characters  by  which  our  adorable  Saviour  invites 
us  to  recognize,  and  shun  the  false  Christ  of  whom  he  speaks, 
coincide  perffectly  with  the  false  wafer- Christ  of  Rome,  and  I 
here  publicly  challenge  not  only  Cardinal  Gibbons,  but  all 
the  bishops  and  priests  of  Rome,  to  deny  or  explain  away  those 
four  characters  of  their  wafer-Christs. 

I.  No  priests  or  bishops  will  deny  that  there  are  many,  very 
many,  Christs  in  their  midst.  For  it  is  a  public  fact  that  every 
church  contains  from  a  dozen  to  one  and  five  hundred  anil  more 
of  those  Christs  who  are  shut  up  in  the  gold  or  silver  cibonums. 
I  do  not  exaggerate  when  I  say  that  there  are  more  than  a 
million  of  those   Christs   worshipped   every  day  in  the  different 

churches  of  Rome.  1    •    r  1 

3.  No  priests  nor  any  bishops  will  dare  to  deny  that  their  false 
Christ  is  "sometimes  here  and  sometimes  there."  For  every  day, 
they  liave  to  carry  It  to   the   sick  and  dying  under  the  name  of 


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woman  n^u        0^  f ^  "^''^''  ^ '"^  ^'  •"'-'••-ied 

;o;;the,'n;;:«;'"o^',l;r/;  i  ■:;;!„t;.""-"  '■>-"  "^'^""  '-»■* "- 

The  Saviour  of  the  World   h-ul   ^ii,]    uTt    . 
you,  Lo!  here  is  Chris^  c.-     er     bll^^'it^;'"^'  "^^ ,?  V"^" 

Th  Pope  s„,4, " vv,'::.„"u;:;;y ;:  • :;  "Yo'-^'-ri^'ci'"'-: 

or  there,  believe  it!"  "  -       '  ^  '^  Christ, 

The  third  character  of  the  false  rhrk)   of  R^ 

:i  fit  place  to  dwell  in         Aftr.,-  n  f„      1  i  *'     "^^  '^  "^^ 

»ing  a„d  hear  a  .ermo,      Afte,    ,  °  pllie  I'rC"'*  ^° '"  ^"^  °'- 

Christ  remaining  alone  in  a  deserted  nlL.  ^v'^'^"'  J^'"'' 

the  want  ^frvfandrespecTot^^^^  P^^^'^  «" 

Saviour,  the  Son  of  oSd  abne  iSa^inlT  ^  ''^*  f"^'^  '  ^'^^'^"^ 

anyonetoadorea.dp.ise^r'So^;^tn;J^ek^t^^ 


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,  at 
kiget 


lately,  instituted  a  new  order  of  devotees,  whose  duties  are  never 
to  let  their  so-called  Saviour  alone.  Each  member  of  that  society 
ib  bound  to  select  an  hour  of  the  day  or  the  night  which  they  will 
pass  in  the  church  in  adoring  him.  In  that  way,  a  certain  num- 
ber of  churches  have  ceased  from  being  a  desert,  a  solitude.  .  .  . 
For  in  those  churches  there  are  always  some  worshippers  who, 
one  after  the  other,  come  to  pass  their  hour  befote  the  alter  and 
offer  their  homages  to  their  wafer-Christ.  But  these  very  efforts 
made  by  the  Jesuits  to  pre\ent  the  accomplishment  of  the  proph- 
ecy of  Christ,  is  its  most  undeniable  confirmation. 

The  Son  of  God,  speaking  of  the  false  Christ,  he  said,  "If 
they  shall  say  unto  you,  Behold  He  (Christ)  is  in  the  des- 
ert, go  not  forth."  .  .  But  the  Pope  says,  "When  the  priests  tell 
you,  Behold  He  (Christ)  is  in  the  desert,  go  forth  and  adore  Him 
there  in  that  desert." 

The  fourth  character  by  which  our  adorable  Saviour  warns  us 
against  the  leoeption  of  the  wafer-Christ  and  god  of  Rome  is 
that  "He  will  dwell  in  secret  chambers." 

"Whercfori.',  if  tliey  sliall  say  unto  you,  behold  ...  he  is  in  the  secret 
■chambers,  behexe  it  not."     (Matl.  xxiv.,  26.) 

Can  any  bishop  or  priest  of  Rome  deny  that  their  modern  and 
false  Christ  is,  day  and  night,  in  secret  chambers^  where  they 
themselves,  with  their  own  iiands,  shut  him  up,  every  morning? 

If  any  one  of  our  readers,  particularly  among  the  Protestants, 
has  any  doubt  about  that  fact,  let  them  not  believe  what  we  say  here, 
but  let  them  go  to  the  Roman  Catholic  bishop  or  priest  of  the 
nearest  city  or  town,  and  let  them  politely  invite  the  Pope's  repre- 
sentative to  come  with  them  to  his  church.  And  when  there,  let 
them  walk  around  the  church  till  they  come  before  the  alter,  and 
then,  let  them  stop,  and  look  with  attention  to  the  altar.  They 
will  see,  above  the  front  table  of  the  altar,  a  beautiful  door,  which 
is  almost  invariably  the  most  richly  decorated  part  of  the  church. 
With  very  rare  exceptions,  the  sculptor  has  put  there  the 
most  perfect  sculpture  which  his  chisels  could  make;  and  the 
gilder  has  plated  or  gilded  it  with  his  utmost  skill  and  perfection. 
Wiiun  the  inquirer  \v\\\  have  adinired  the  workmanship  of  that 
<loor,  let  him  ask  the  bishop  or  the  priest  of  Rome,  "Is  there  a 
secret  chamber  behind  that  door?  "and  the  bishop  or  his  priest 
will  have  to  answer,  "Yes;  there  is  a  secret  and  a  most  sacred 
chamber  behind  that  door'  which  we  call  'The  Tabernacle."  Let 
the  inquirer  continue  his  questions,  and  ask,  "Is  there  anybody 
in  that  secret  and  most  sacred  chamber  which  you  call  'The 
Tabernale  ?"  and  the  Roman  Catholic  dignitary  will  be  forced 
to  answer,  "Yes;  there  is  somebody  in  that  sacred  chambe." 
Then,  let  the  inquirer  ask,  "Who  is  there?  by  what  name  do 
yon  call  the  being  who  dwells  in  that  secret  chamber?"  And  the 
Roman  Catholic  bishop,  with  his  priests,  will  have  to  answer, 
*'It  is  Tesus  Christ  who  is  there?"    The  inquirer,  puzzled  at  that 


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i6 


answer,  will  probably  say  to  the  bishop,  "You  do  not  mean,  sir, 
that  It  IS  the  hvnig  and  glorified  Christ,  with  his  body,  soul  and 

divinity,  who  IS  there  in   that   secret   chamber; you   surely 

mean  only  that  it  is  a  memorial,  a  simple  remembrance  of  Jesus- 
Christ!  Assuming,  then,  an  air  of  solemnity  rnd  awe,  the  Ro- 
ma,nCathohccardinal  will  answer,  "Yes,  sir!  I  mean  that  it  is 
jesus  Christ  Imiself,  the  living  Christ,  the  glorified  Christ,  in 
person  with  Ins  boy,  soul  and  divinity,  what  is  in  that  most 
lioly  tabernacle.  I  consent  to  be  branded  before  the  world  a.s 
an  impostor,  an(  to  be  publicly  punished  as  a  sacrilegious  calum- 
niator, if  the  b.shop  and  the  priest  of  Rome  do  not  gi^'e  these 
answers,  or  some  others   which   come   to   the  same  sense.  . 

liut  ,f  this  public  acknowledgment  of  Christ  in  secret  cham- 
bers ,s  made  l,y  the  Church  of  Rome  herself,  through  her  most 
accrcHhted  authorities,  who  can  deny  that  the  av.ful  piophccv  of 
the  .Son  of  God  IS  accomplished  in  our  verv  midst?  \Vho 
will  not  see  vyith  his  own  eyes,  and  hear  with  hi's  own  ears,  that 
the  false  Chnsts,  foretold  by  the  Sa\  iour  of  the  world  are  takin- 
possession  of  the  world;  they  are  multiplied  without  measure  in 
every  city  or  town;  they  are  adored  evervwhere  by  the  blind, 
mi.  t.tudes  whom  the  Pope  keeps  a1>jectly"prostrated  at  the  feet 
of  their  idols  in  the  secret  chambers. 

With  Paul,  when  contemplating  that  grand  and  terrible   my- 
stery of  inupntv,  must  we  not  say'— 

w.'uf  theX'^Ht'of  H?'  ^'"^:f  ''"  r'r'^'?,'^'^'  ^^-h^'"  '^"^  ^ord  sh...Il   consume 
coming        ^  '  *''"''  '•'""  '^^'^'■^y  '^'^'^  t'^*-'  brightness  of   Hi. 

and^lgJs  and  l^^^o'S^  ''  '''''  '^'^  ^^""'•'^'"^  °^  ^^^^  ^'^'^  ^^"  P--'" 

.n'^f^lK''^'^''  "*'•'  ^'"-eivableness  of  unrighteousness  in  them  that  perish-  bc- 
ca  se  thev  receive  not  the  love  of  the  truth  that  they  might    e    aved 

sh;;^3l,;HeVe'rHr"""  ''"'  ^'^""  ^^"^^^'^^'■"  ^^^°"^  clflusions?\hat  thev 

p.Z?^Sn^irlgi;s;iSs."::::;'¥;!.;;:'^^  '^''^'■-'  -^^  ^'-  *-^'^-  ^-  -^' 

FIFTH    CONSIDERATION 

TRANSUBSTANTIATIOX  MAKES  GOD  INFERIOR 
TO  MAN,  AND  CHANGES  MAN  INTO  GOD. 

The  Creator  is  above  the  create.l  thing,  but  it  is  evident  that,  in 
the  imp.oue  dogma  of  Transubstantiation,  the  priest  of  Rome  is 
put  muclv  above  his  God. 

It  will  not  require  long  reflections  to  understand  that,  by  his 
magical  power,  ,n  the  ace  of  changing  the  wafer  into  their  o-od 
che  popes  and  the  priests  of   Rome   become  intinately   stronger' 
more  powerful,  and  superior  to  their  poor  ignominious  divinity; 
Foi  they  assu.-e  us  that  .he  very  moment  the  priest  speaks,  God 
obeys,  and  subnnts  himself  to  the  will  of  that  priest;  He  can  not 


* 


'7 


resist;  He  can  not  delay;  He  must  come  down  from  His  throne,  and 
lod-c  liiN  iuniiaiiily  and  divinity  in  that  little  round  and  thin  cake  on 
which  the  olHciatinj,'  priest  has  said,  ''//or  est  cni,n  corpus  mcnmr 

The  marvellous  act  of  Joshua  is  nothin<r  hut  a  child's  plav,  when 
compared  with  the  miracle  performed  hv  the  i.riest  of' Rome 
ev'jry  mornin<r.  Joshua  had  to  deal  oidv  wi'th  two  of  the  inanimate 
creatures  of  (icd,  when  he  stopped  the  sun  and  moon  in  their 
march  throu<,rh  the  skies;  hut  it  is  with  the  Creator,  the  Master  of 
the  sun,  the  moon,  and  the  stars  and  all  the  worlds,  that  the  priest 
has  to  deal,  to  whom  he  commands,  and  hv  wnom  he  is  oheveil 

The  power  of  the  priest  over  God,  in  that  dojrma,  is  absolute" 
personal,  without  api)eal.  God  har,  no  power  of  resistance-  He 
has  no  power  of  appeal,  no  power  of  delay.  He  must  come 
down  from  His  throne,  quicker  than  li^rhtning,  into  that  cake  and 
transform  it  into  I.' is  divine,  eternal,  almighty  person  of  the  Son 
at  the  will  and  bidding  of  the  priest,  not  only  once  a  dav,  but  as 
often  as  it  will  be  the  pleasure  of  the  priest  to  pronounce  on  a 
wafer,  or  any  other  crumb  of  wheat  bread,  the  magical  words 
»/r<3c  est  enim  corpus  meum.''''  ' 

Let  both  the  Roman  Catholics  and  the  Protestants  well  con- 
sider that  the  Church  of  Rome,  positivclv,  says  that  her  priests 
can  perform  that  tremendous  miracle  not  only  once  a  dav,  at 
mass;  but  at  every  moment  of  the  day  and  night  it  will  please  them 
to  pronounce  those  words,  with  the  required  intention,  the  bread 
is  changed  into  the  body,  blood,  soul  and  divinity  of  Jesus  Christ. 
For  instance,  let  the  bishops  and  priests  of  Sydney  and  Mel- 
bourne, of  Paris  and  London,  of  Constantinople  and  Pekin,  of 
Rome  and  Geneva,  of  New  York  and  Quebec  or  Chica^ro  pass 
through  the  streets  of  those  cities  to-dav,  and,  stopping  before 
their  bakeries,  pronounce  on  the  loaves  of  bread  which  are  there, 
under  their  eyes,  the  words,  "-//oc  est  cnhn  corpus  mcum,'''  there 
will  not  remain  a  single  loaf  of  bread  in  any  one  of  those  bakeries! 
Every  loaf  will  have  been  changed  into  the  bodv,  blood,  soul  and 
divinity  of  Jesus  Christ.  Every  loaf  will  have  become  a  -od, 
which  you  must  adore  under  the  pain  of  eternal  damnation! 
More  than  that,  every  particle  of  those  loaves  if  they  are  crushed 
into  fragments  and  pulverized,  will  be  changed  into  the  true  body 
blood,  soul  and  divinity  of  Jesus  Christ!  and  eternally  cursed 
must  be  those  who  will  not  adore  each  one  of  those  millions  and 
millions  of  fragments  and  atoms  of  bread  as  the  great  and  merci- 
ful God  who  created  the  worlds  with  a  word  from  his  lips,  and 
saved  it,  when  incarnated,  by  dying  on  the  Cross. 

But  if  these  considerations  arc  not  sufficient  to  convince  the 
mind  of  every  intelligent  Roman  Catholic  and  Protestant  of  the 
diabolical  character  which  the  dogma  of  Transubstantiation  bears 
on  Its  face,  let  them  reflect  on  the  following  propositions,  which 
I  challenge  the  Catholic  bishops  of  the  whole  world  to  deny. 

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that  every  good  priest  has  the  tiemeiulous  power  of  ti  ansfor.ninff 
the  wafers,  and  all  the  wheat  loaves  of  bread   which  are  on   the 
earth,  into  gods,  at  everv  hour  of  the  day  or  night,  in  the  churches 
HI  the  streets,  ni  the  bakers'  carts  and  bakers'  shops;   but   every 
^^bad  priest, '  every  drunken  priest,  every  interdicted  and  excom- 
mumay'cd priest^  has  the  same  power  over  God.     Antl  no  po|)e 
no  bishop   not  God  Almighty  Himself,  can  tak^  away  from  those 
bail,  drunken,  interdicted,  excommunicated  priests  that  super-di- 
vine  power  of  changing  the  millions  of  loaves  of   bread    which 
are  on  this  globe  into  as  many  bodies,  souls,  divinities  of   Tesus 
Lhnst!  ^ 

For  instance,  do  not  the  bishops,  and  the  priests  of  Rome  tell 
their  people  that  I,  the  ex-priest,  Chiniquy,  am  one  of  the   most 
wicked  men  the  world  has  ever  seen?     Yes!  this   is   what   thev 
have  many  times  proclaimed  in  their  press  and  in  all  their  pulpits 
on  the  five  continents  of  the  globe.      Well,  it  is  one  of  the  articles 
of  the  religion  taught  by  the  infallible  Church  of  Rome,  that  I 
Chmiquy,  the  mfamous,the  interdicted  and  excommunicated  priest 
Lhiniquy,  still  possess  that  supreme  power  uver  the  God  of  Rome 
Is  it  possible  to  find  a  more  cruel   and  infamous  being  than 
Archb-shop    Purcell,    of    Cincinnati?      That    king    of    modern 
swindlers,  as  every  one  knows,    has,    these    last    twenty    years 
made  use  of  his  high  position  in  the  Church  of  Rome  to   induce' 
thousands  and  thousands  of  his  poor  people  to  lend  and  trust  him 

w' u'"","^^.'  '"  *^''  '""°""^  "^  "'^'^•■'y  fo"'-  millions  of  dollars 
Withithe   has  lived  in    luxury   with   his  dissoluted   nuns  and 
priests;  he  has  built  splendid  palaces,  and   a   magnificent  cathe- 
dral, where  he  has  been  worshipped  as  a  god  during  many  years. 
But  when  the  day  came  for  refunding  the  money  into  the  hands 
of  the  poor  orphans  and  widows  who  had  trusted  him  their  last 
cent  he  coldly  rejected  them,  declared  bankrupt   and   retired   to 
one  of  his  palaces  to  continue  to  live  like  a  prince   in   the  midst 
of   his   nuns!     Well,  day   after  day,  for  twenty  years,  wh^n  he 
was  working  that  great  iniquity,  he  ascended  his  altar  took  the 
wafers  in  his  hands,  and  pronounce  the  magical  words,  ^^Hoc  est 
entm  corpus  metan-  upon  them,  and  turned  them  into  his   <rod' 
That  God,  though  surely  unwilling  to  come  into  such  crinTinal 
hands,  though  abhorring  that  cruel  heart,  though  reproving  that 
guilysou,  was    forced    to    come    down,  in  person,  intolho'e 
hands   rest  m  that  heart,  and  unite  most  intimatelv   and   person- 
alv  with  that  soul !     That  infamous  Roman  Catholic  Bisho,"  as 

CI  ist'"%'r'p  ■"■''  ^^'•'■■^""'^  in-esistible  power  over  his  esus 
Chust.  The  Pope  can  interdict  and  excommunicate  him  but 
he  can  not  deprive  hnn  of  that  supreme  power  which  he,  ^nce 
^M  all,  gave  h.m  over  his  God  Almightv  and  his  eternal  Son. 
That  eternal  and  A  , nighty  God  of  Rome  is  now  tied  to  the  will 
of  that  public  swuK  ler  with  a  more  powerful  chain  than  the  vil- 
est dog  IS  tied  by  his  chain  to  the  hand  of  his  master!     he  must 


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follow  him  whereevcr  he  goes,  stops  where  he  stops,  go  right 
or  left,  up  or  clown,  according  as  Archbishop  Purcell,  of  Cincin- 
nati, wishes  him  to  <>o! 

Do  not  the  Roman  Catholics  agree  with  the  Protestants,  in 
confessing  that  th.  r  Pope  Alexander  VI.  was  one  of  the  most  in- 
famous monsters  and  debauchees  the  world  has  ever  seen?  Do 
thev  not  acknowledge  that,  not  satisfied  with  living  in  public 
concubinage  with  his  own  sisters,  he  seduced  and  dishcMiored  his 
own  daughter,  Lucretia?  Is  there  not  a  perfect  unanimity 
jinioung  the  historians  of  both  Roman  Catholic  and  Protestant 
persuasions  to  say  that  Pope  Alexander  VI.  must  be  put  at  the 
head  of  ihe  monsters  who  have  overstejiped  the  limits  of  human 
depravity,  impiety  and  infamy?  liut,  notwithstanding  all  that, 
the  Church  of  Rome  assures  us  that  that  incarnated  devil  not 
only  was  infallible,  but  that  he  never  lost  the  supreme,  personal 
and  direct  power  which  his  ordination  gave  him  over  the  Son  of 
God,  .She  says  that  every  time  Alexander  VI.  pronounced  the 
words,  '''•Hoc  est  cnim  corpus  mcitm^''  o\er  a  wafer,  or  any  piece 
of  wheat  bread,  Christ  was  coming  quicker  than  lightning  into 
his  hands  to  be  manipulated,  instdted  by  him,  or  given  to  his 
concubines,  that  they  might  be  fed  with  His  true  body,  blood, 
soul  and  divinity!  And  if  any  one  t'as  any  doubt  about  that,  he 
is  cursed  and  damned  by  the  Church  of  Rome.  Nay,  he  mi:  .t 
be  burned  'ike  Wishart,  drowned  like  Mary  Lamb,  of  Perth,  or 
thrown  from  the  top  of  the  high  mountains  dov/n  on  the  naked 
rocks,  like  thousands  and  thousands  in  Piedmont,  or  tortured  and 
slaughtered  as  so  manv  millions  were  all  over  Europe,  by  the 
bloody  Inquisition. 

After  such  blasphemies,  who  can  have  the  least  doubt  that 
Roman  Catholicism  is  the  most  impious  and  satanic  religion  the 
world  has  ever  seen?  They  acknowledge  that  every  time  I  pro- 
aounce  the  words,  '•'■Hoc  est  ctiini  corpus  meum^''  over  a  wafer  or 
a  loaf  of  bread,  with  the  required  intention,  that  wafer  or  that 
loaf  of  brer.d  is  changed  into  the  body,  blood,  soul  and  divinitv 
of  Jesus  Christ!  They  say  that  every  one  of  those  wafers  and 
loaves  of  bread  nuist  be  adored  by  the  people  under  pain  of 
eternal  damnation  I  Docs  not  the  Church  of  Rome  confess  by 
that  that  all  her  priests,  and  even  the  excommunicated  apostate 
Chiiiiciuy,  as  she  calls  mc,  are  stronger  than  her  poor,  weak,  mis- 
erable God?  He  can  not  resist  us?  .  .  .  Though  He  is  anp-ry 
against  me.  He  must  come  every  time  I  force  Him  to  come  inio 
that  wafer,  which  I  transform  into  Him;  though  He  is  absolute- 
ly opposed  to  my  doing  so;  though  He  must  be  horrified  to 
come  into  such  criminal  hands,  He  is  powerless  in  my  presence! 
At  my  word^Hv  loses  His  divine  and  infinite  power  of  resist- 
ance! He  must  iiuickly  obey  me,  and  come  in  his  human  and 
divine  person  at  my  biddii.g,  into  my  hands.  He  must  let  me 
put  his  human  and  divine  person  into  mv  tin  boxes,  transport 
Him  from  Montreal  to  San  Francisco,  from   San   Francisco  to 


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New  York!  .  .  He,  the  poor  God  of  Rome,  can  not  help  it  •  He 
must  fo  low  me  wherever  I  go,  and  he  must  silently  allovv  me 
to  distribute  Him  into  the  hundreds  of  lecturing  meetings  I  have 
held,  or  wdl  hold,  in  the  various  cities  in  the  United  States 

Does  not  the  Church  of  Rome  proclaim  by  that  horrible  dia- 
bolical doctrme  (which  is  her  doctrine)  that  not  only  her  c-ood 
priests,  but  her  bad  and  renegade  priests,  are  more  "above  *God 
in  power,  dignity,  prerogatives,  than  heaven  is  above  the  earth? 
Does  not  the  Pope  prove  by  that  horrible  doctrine  that  he  and 
his  priests  are  the  anti-Christ  of  whom  Paul  speaks?— "Who  on 
poseth  and  exalteth  himself  above  all  that  is  called  God  or  that 
IS  worshipped:  so  that  he,  as  God,  sitteth  in  the  temp'e  of  God 
showing  himself  that  he  is  a  God."— 2  Th.  ii.  * 

Where  can  we  find  that  "man  of  perdition,\vho  exalteth  him- 
self above  God,"  If  he  is  not  the  Pope  and  his  priests,  who  boast 
that,  at  every  nour  of  day  or  night,  God  Almighty  is  bound  to 
come  at  their  bidding  into  that  little  cake,  and  when  there,  He  is 
absolutely  powerless  to  resist  them!  They  carry  Him  in  their 
yest  or  pants'  pockets;  they  drive  Him  in  {heir  buggies  throueh 
the  country,  or  force  Him  to  accompany  them  in  s.-dling  or  steam 
ships,  and  cross  the  seas  and  the  oceans;  shut  Him  up  in  their 
secret  chambers,  or  tabernacles,  where,  more  than  once,  the  rats 
and  mice  put  an  end  to  His  miserable  existence 

For  let  not  the  Roman  Catholics  forget  that  their  God,  when 
once  under  the  spell  of  theirpriests,  becomes  absolutely  impotent 
to  protect  His  divine  person   against  any  one  of   his  foes— nor 
even  against  any  one  of  the  elements  by  which  men  are  taught 
and  apt  to  protect  themselves.     He  is  burned  in  the  fires  which 
anack  Him  in  His  seci^t  chambers;  He  is  drowned  in  the  rivers 
and  the  seas,  where  He  sometimes  falls  with  tne  priests  vvho 
carry  Him  in  their  vest  or  pants'  pockets;  and  He  is  crushedTnto 
atoms  under  the  wheels  of  the  cars  with  the  priests  who  have 
»ome  imes  the  misfortune  to  perish  in  those  ten-ible  railroad  Ic! 
CKknts.     Though,  often,  man  can  protect  himself  against  U.e 
fire  by  running  away,  the  poor  God  of  Rome  has  no  vvay  of  es! 
cape  f mm  fire.     There  He  is,  absolutely  motionless  and  ^oower- 
less  before  the  devournig  flames.     He  can  neither  fly  away  on 
His  wings,  nor  run  away  w-th  His  feet 

th^rT-  f ''"'^"  'T  "''.  '^""^^  '^"^^'"^  "^  '^^  '^^  ^'  endangered  by 
the  lapid  rivers,  has  often  saved  himself  by  swimmino-.  *'  But  thl 

impotent   inert  God  of  Rome  can  not  swim;  He  must  per    h 

there   and  be  buried  in  that  watery  grave  wi'thout  even  Un^ 

exi^tlnce.  "^  '^"'  '°  ^'"'"^^  '^'^  '''''''■'''''  -^'  humilirtin| 
How  many  times  I  have  heard,  in  Canada  and  the  United  States 

the  poor  deluded  Roman  Catholics'  lamentations,  when     he  fire 

had  destroyed  their  churches:     "Oh!  what  a  cibimitv       H? 

cried;  "the  good  God  is  burned."  "  Z.X  ^.V^ '"Jf '3; J  7^ 
But  I  consider  it  my  duty  to  put  before  the  intelligence  of  the 


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Roman  Catholics,  who  have  not  yet  entirely  silenced  the  voice  of 
their  reason,  a  new  consideration  which  their  Cr  urch  keeps,  as 
much  as  she  can,  out  of  sight.  In  her  sacred  book  of  the  mass 
called  "Missale,"  she  acknowledges  that  several  times,  when  the 
priest  has  eaten  the  wafer-god  and  drank  the  wine-god,  he  vomits 
them  before  they  are  digested.  She  laments  much  over  those  sad 
circumstances;  she  looks  really  distrrssed  when  she  sees  her  great 
eternal  God  vomited  out  of  the  stomach  of  her  priests,  and  re- 
jected, there,  on  the  floor,  in  the  midst  of  the  other  vomited 
matter  in  which  he  is  seen  floating.  .  .  But  as  the  Church  of 
Rome  is  infallible,  and  as  she  is  evidently  directed  by  the  Holy 
Ghost  in  every  thing  she  does  and  says,  she  has  found,  in  her 
divine  wisdom,  a  most  marvelous  remedy,  not  to  cure  the  sick 
stomach  of  her  priests,  but  to  show  her  great  respect  for  her 
wafer-god.  .  .  When  the  priest  has  vomited  his  God  from  his 
stomach,  and  His  Divine  Majesty  is  seen  drowned  in  the  midst 
of  the  putrified  and  stinking  matters  which  the  stomach  has  re- 
jected, the  infallible,  holy,  apostolical  Church  of  Rome  invites 
her  priests  to  cat  again  and  swallow  what  he  has  vomited,  in 
order  that  her  glorified  Saviour  may  have  the  honor  to  jJass  the 
next  quarter  of  an  hour  in  the  sickly  stomach  of  her  priests  I 

What  a  grand  and  sublime  spectacle  the  Church  of  Rome 
presents  here,  to  the  admiration,  nay,  the  adoration,  of  man! 
Who  will  not  confess  that  she  has  the  true  marks,  of  the  holy, 
pi're,  undefiled  Church  of  Christ,  when  she  asks  you  to  come 
and  adore  her  great  God  and  Saviour,  there,  on  the  floor,  swim- 
ming or  floating  in  the  midst  of  the  vomited  matters  rejected  by 
the  sick  stomach!  and  that,  to  show  you  with  what  profound  re- 
spect and  adoration  you  must  look  upon  her  Divine  Redeemer, 
she  requests  her  priest  to  swallow  again  what  he  has  vomited ! 

Now,  I  ask — Was  it  possible  for  the  devil  to  invent  anything 
more  insulting  to  God  and  man  than  that  abominable  dogma  of 
Transubstantiation?  Could  the  Divine  person  of  God  and  His 
Christ  be  more  outraged,  insulted  and  degraded,  than  by  that  lie 
which  makes  man  believe  that  he  may  make  his  god  with  a  little 
cake,  eat  it,  vomit  it,  and  swallow  it  again?  Has  the  great  God 
of  Heaven  and  earth  been  ever  outraged  or  insulted  by  the  an- 
cient or  modern  heathen  nations  as  He  is  to-day,  when  He  is  said 
to  be  personally  vomited  from  the  stomach  of  a  miserable  man; 
personally  swimming  and  floating  in  the  putrified  rejects  of  the 
Pope's  stomach?  Is  it  not  evident  that  the  impious  dogma  of 
Transubstantiation  is  the  last,  the  utmost  limit  of  the  lies  of 
Satan?  Is  not  that  blasphemous  dogma  the  last  limit  of  the 
blasphemies  by  which  hell  could  insult  God?  Is  it  not  evident 
that,  when  that  dogma  raises  the  Pope  of  Rome  infinitely  above 
God  in  power  and  dignity,  it  brings  down  the  Divine  and  eter- 
nal person  of  God  into  the  most  degrading,  humiliating  position 
into  which  any  being  can  be  degraded? 

Satan,  not  beinjj  able  to  kill  our  great  God,  has  at  last  succeed- 


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ed,  through  the  Pope,  to  drag  Hhn  down  from  His  throne  ind 

fi  e  prie""'"  wh"  .;r''"',  7"%'  "^■^^'"'  'y "-  ^'°'"-'"°f 

1  Pyest .      \V  hat  a  triumph  for  Satan  in  his  war  ao-ainst  Gnd 
and  H,s  beloved  and  eternal  Son!      What  a  victorvt  when  he 

Ca  uCT'lh  :  "T  '"''Vr-  '="  ^^"  ^^"^^■^^-  ^^^  '^-''»^^'  ^1-  cTd  of 
Fv  1^  I       ^  't'  '''""^  ^^'"I'^'^'iiit  him  and  sn-allow  him  ao-ain » 

Evidently,  Transubstantiation  isthe  masterpiece  of  the  cTc    i  ' 

And  ,f  any  one  has  any  doul,t  about   this,  let  him  eomeLd  .  e 

see     nhat     the    Church     of     Rome    acknowledcres     to    hannen 
o  tener  than  peop  e  suspect.     Yes,let  those  who\.re  not  c^  ai 
hat  Transubstantuition  is  the  most  stupendous  blasphemy  which 
as  come  ot.t  from  hell,  come  and  see  the  priest  of  Rome  crl. 
tn,<,h.sgodw:tha   wafer,vomitin,^    him,  and    swallow^no-  him 
:  gam,  to  vom.t  him  a  second  time  asis  generally  the  c  se  '^   F^ 
■t  IS  next  to  n..possible  for  the  ston.aeh^o   keep   a   second  thiae 
putrid  matter  it  has  once  eiected       When   lool-   .c^\,  m 
n^.t,  at  that  hcn-rible  spec4cle,  he  ^Z^!.r^^::^ 
heaven  whispenng  in  his  ears-'^For  this  cause,  God  si  all  se^  d 
them  strong  delusion,  that  they  believe  a  He:  that  thev  a      Xh 


THE  GOD  OF  ROME  EATEN  BY  A  RAT. 

had  seen,  their  ears  heard  and  their  intelligence  perce  ve  I      qit 
ceive   ye   not,    neither   understand^      lJ,J.r^^        ^  ""'' 

hardened?     Havin<>-  eves   see  ve     of  I  "      ''T  ''^'"'^  >'^^ 

1    1  ' '"f-.  "^^i '-•^t  -ste  ve  not;  liaviin»"  ears    he-n-  -i-r.  .i^t-s 

and  do  not  ye  remember?  "-(Mark  viii.  ^7,^S      '     ""'   '"  "^'- 
"•ere  given  to  g„ide  „:,",':  " i"^  \         ' cf,',;;,;';-  ^o™:'  ':i^y 

i:.i^r,X"T;h;^;^:hrRt";;'"2:th!l^-^-''^''^'^ 

the  ^..imony  of  their  e™:;^™'-;..,,-;;,^'™^-''  ""'  '"  "■-    ' 


kiioiv.     R'ememher  tlv>7Vn"t,'."",'  "'"  '""  •^°"  "'"•  -"""  '""^' 
-e„reh  of  tr^th'^d  SH^^lU^dg^:^  th^W^ ll^-f;,^' *: 


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perdition.     If  you  want  to  know  anything,  come  to  me;  I  am  the 
only  sure  and  [nfallible  fountain  of  truth,"  says  the  Pope. 

And  this  stupendous  imposture  is  accepted  by  the  people  and 
the  priests  of  Rome  with  a  mysterious  facility,  and  retained  with 
a  most  desolating  tenacity. 

It  is  to  them  what  the  iron  ring  is  to  the  nose  of  an  ox,  when 
a  rope  is  once  tied  to  it.  The  poor  animal  loses  its  self-control: 
its  natural  strength  and  energies  will  avail  it  nothing;  it  must  go 
left  or  right,  at  the  will  of  the  one  who  holds  the  end  of  the  rope. 

Reader,  please  have  no  contempt  for  the  unfortunate  priests 
and  people  of  Rome,  but  pity  them  when  you  see  them  wallving 
into  the  ways  into  which  intelligent  beings  ought  not  to  make  a 
step.  They  cannot  help  it.  The  ring  of  the  ox  is  at  their  nose, 
and  the  Pope  holds  the  end  of  the  rope. 

Had  it  not  been  for  that  ring,  I  would  not  have  been  long  at 
the  feet  of  the  wafek-god  of  Rome.  Let  me  tell  one  of  the 
shining  rays  of  truth,  which  were  evidently  sent  by  our  merciful 
God,  with  a  mighty  power  to  open  my  eyes.  But  I  could  not 
follow  it;  the  iron  ring  was  at  my  nose,  and  the  Pope  was  hold- 
ing the  end  of  the  rope. 

This  was  after  I  had  been  put  at  the  head  of  the  magnificent 
parish  of  Beauport,  in  the  spring  of  183S.  There  was  living  at 
"  La  Jeune  Lorette"  an  old  retired  priest,  who  was  blind.  He  was 
born  in  France,  where  had  been  condemned  to  death,  under 
the  Reign  of  Terror.  Escaped  from  the  guillotine,  he  had  fled  to 
Canada,  where  the  Bishop  of  Quebec  had  put  him  in  the  eleva- 
ted post  of  Chaplain  of  the  Ursuline  Nunnery.  He  had  a  fine 
voice,  was  a  good  musician,  and  had  some  pretensions  to  the  title 
of  poet.  Having  composed  a  good  number  of  Church  hymns,  he 
had  been  called  "  Pere  Cantique;"  but  his  real  namic  was  "Pere 
Daule."  His  faith  and  piety  were  of  the  most  exalted  character 
among  the  Roman  Catholics:  though  this  did  not  prevent  him 
from  being  one  of  the  most  amiable  and  jovial  men  I  ever  saw. 
But  his  blue  eyes,  sweet  as  the  eyes  of  the  dove;  his  fine  yellow 
hair,  falling  on  his  shoulders  as  a  golden  fleece;  his  white  rosy 
cheeks  and  his  constantly  smiling  lips  had  been  too  much  for  the 
■tender  hearts  of  the  good  nuns.  It  was  not  a  secret  that  "  Pere 
Cantique,"  when  young,  had  made  several  interesting  conquests 
when  in  the  monastery.  There  was  no  wonder  at  that.  Indeed, 
how  could  that  young  and  inexperienced  butterfly  escape  dam- 
aging his  golden  wings  at  the  numberless  burning  lamps  of  the 
fair  virgins?  But  the  mantle  of  charity  had  been  put  on  the 
wounds  which  the  old  warrior  had  received  on  that  formidable 
battle-field,  from  which  even  the  Davids,  Samsons,  Solomons  and 
many  others  had  escaped  only  after  being  mortally  wounded. 

To  help  the  poor  blind  priest,  the  curates  around  Quebec  used 
to  keep  him,  by  turns,  in  their  parsonages,  and  give  him  the  care 
and  marks  of  respect  due  to  his  old  age.  After  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Rov,  curate  of  Charlesbourg,  had  kept  him  five  or  six  weeks,  I 


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how  she  was^con  r.1  v"  ^n^^^^^  '^^^e  and  salvation  of  sinners: 
Jesus,  who,  were  not  tr  hit  T"^'  ^"  ^^  ^'"^'^^  "^  ^^'^  ^on 
have  Ion.  ^incee;Xl  us  down""    "^'    ^Pect  to  her,  would 

thl'^Sitt^c:::  t^:;.  r^^^^^^^-  ^'-  ^'-^  p-^^s  to  say 

the  Pope  the  ,  riv  iJlor  it  ?•  ''^t  P"^'^"'  ^^^  ^^'^^  got  from 
gin,  w/:ich;re^kn  w^:^^^^^^^^^^^  -''-  of  the  Vir. 

good  old  priest  was    t  th.  •  Unv  .       '^  '"o^'ng,  when  the 

vestry  hearing  t;::^c;:;jt;oro  x^  ^^r  th:!' "^^  "^  ^^^^ 

boy  came  to  me  in  haste  and  sn  1  .f^^'  t^ '"^^^''^  servant 
please  come  quick"  '  ^"'  ■ ''''^''  "Father  Daule  calls  you; 

altar  with  his  two  l4d     Ts'  in  ^-"^  "^'•^^"^Jy  tapping  the 

precious  thin..      Wh"  ';:^J     '"  ;^7.'«"V"''*^'^^^^  ^^^^  «0'"e%erv 

want?"     He  tmsvverti Vi.^     /"'• '?  ^'i">  ^  ^''"^'  "  ^hat  do  you 

^ '"'^^veied  with  a  shriek  of  dstrpss   «  Tl-,«  -,      i        i 

has  disapj^eared  from  the  altar.     .     .         He  Jlos^^   V         ^'J'^ 

liZZZ.n  •  •I^.-^''-Pa^.dedessu^'ntel.^'"^"'■'" 
aw'fv^  h^go^d  "dTLr r 'Tv^^'l  ^'^'-^^  ^^  ^'^  '^-^  -'y  thrown 
dent;  I  looked  onlc^Uai  ^h  7  \°"  '^^^  ^"°'"  ^'>^  ^^"^'^  ''^'^-■ 
pect  that  the^";/ 'Vi  ;  "h  h'we'h""'""'^'"^,""  ^  ^°"^^  ^"- 
mistake  of  the  hand      Rn.  ff  I       '"'''"  '"''''^''  '^^'^7  hy  some 

the  good  godti  n^r^  ^r:  -'r;:rtir:r'"'  ^i^^ 

first,  rememberino-  fh,wi,^  i       •    -^  ,'^'^''>  ^^elt  stunnet:      At 

disappearancer:^.!^o.:^^X;;:  s^^l^^^Jjl-^^^^-  S^h^ 
came  to  my  mind  that  we  wcrfL  ru  ^^'^  wafer-god,  it 

miracle,  and  that  mv  evi  w.      .  *"  presence  of  some  great 

when  saying  n,y  n    .^     h'  "?,  '="'-,^'='^"-     Many  times, 

them,  wLv.n, rlnb  e  m'v  ,e  ■    ,    n"     '°  ""'.^  "°»<^  °t  several  o 
wanted  t„  make     oh    fire,  f',    'Z'V"'^"  °«  "« '"esh  wafer, 
divinity  of  n,ypoo;RJ:,;^a;^^^^^,,^;  ''c   -^'^'  W-d.  -"  -^ 
stantly  ni  motion,  or  nravin>.  witi    ,T,  ■     "';  ""  '  ""'•"'  """- 

variably  been  frl.^hte ne     ™1  T  "I"''  ""^  '•■"'  '""'  i"- 

I  felt  terrot-strnck  in  i  ;.       ,        i "'r  '"I" """'' '•'"■<''  1"'-"ters. 
DIen)  ha.,  been  taV^':;  t^::St^l:t:::;i  '"'  *^'  """ 

arc  b":  ,'■;;,  t°ob  n:v:'"th';';t'r"r,r'' "'"'  »""^»  p-'-'^  °'  r-- 
Gc-that,  af^orhe'taii'iiri^o'  '^iL"::;:,:  f"™  '''-"'■'^"■-  '""■ 


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marvel  was  wrought,  he  used  to  pass  from  five  to  fifteen  minutes 
in  silent  adoration.  He  was  then  as  moiionless  as  a  marble  statue, 
and  his  feelings  were  so  strong  that  often  torrents  of  tears  used 
to  flow  from  his  eyes  on  his  cheeks.  Leaning  my  head  towards 
the  distressed  old  priest,  I  said  to  him  have  you  not  remained, 
as  you  are  used,  a  long  time  motionless,  in  adoring  the  good  god 
after  the  consecration  ?', 

He  quickly  answered.  "Yes!  But  what  has  this  to  do  with 
the  loss  of  the  good  god?" 

I  replied  in  a  low  voice,  but  with  a  real  accent  of  distress  and 
awe,  "Some  rats  have  dragged  and  eaten  the  good  god!  !  !" 

"  What  do  you  say?"  replied  Father  Daule:  "the  good  god 
carried  away  and  eaten  by  rats?" 

"Yes,"  I  replied,  "I  have  not  the  least  doubt  about  it." 

"My  God!  My  God!  What  a  dreadful  calamity  upon  me!" 
rejoined  "^he  old  man ;  and  raising  his  hands  and  his  eyes  to  heaven, 
he  cried  out  again,  "My  God!  My  God!  Why  have  you  not 
taken  away  my  life,  before  such  a  misfortune  could  fall  upon  me?" 

He  could  not  speak  any  longer;  his  voice  was  choked  by  his 
sob':. 

At  first,  I  did  not  know  what  to  say;  a  thousand  thoughts, 
some  very  grave,  some  exceedingly  ludicrous,  crossed  my  mind 
more  rapidly  than  I  can  say  them.  I  stood  there  as  nailed  to  the 
floor,  by  the  side  of  the  old  priest,  who  was  weeping  as  a  child, 
till  he  asked  me,  with  a  voice  broken  by  his  sobs,  "What  must 
I  do,  now?" 

I  answered  him,  "The  Church  has  foreseen  occurrences  of  this 
kind,  and  provided  for  them  the  reinedy.  The  only  thing  you 
have  to  do  is  to  get  a  new  wafer,  consecrate  it,  and  continue 
your  mass,  as  if  nothing  strange  had  occurred.  I  will  go  and 
get  you,  just  now,  a  new  bread." 

I  went  without  losing  a  moment,  to  the  vestry,  got  and  brought 
a  new  wafer  which  he  consecrated  and  turned  into  a  new  god, 
ane  finished  his  mass  as  I  had  told  him.  After  it  was  over,  I 
took  the  disconsolate  old  priest  by  tlie  hand  to  my  parsonage,  for 
breakfast.  But  all  along  the  way  he  rent  the  air  with  his  cries 
of  distress.  He  would  hardly  taste  anything,  for  his  soul  was 
really  drowned  in  a  sea  of  disconsolation.  I  vainly  tried  to  calm 
his  feelings,  by  telling  him  that  there  was  no  fault  of  his;  that 
this  strange  and  sad  occurrence  was  not  the  first  of  that  kind; 
that  it  had  been  calmly  forese  in  by  the  Church,  which  has  told  us 
what  to  do  in  these  circumstances;  that  there  was  no  neglect,  no 
fault,  no  offence  against  God  or  man  on  his  part. 

But  as  he  would  not  pay  the  least  attention  to  what  I  said,  I  felt 
the  only  thing  I  had  to  do  was  to  remain  silent  ar  J  respect  his  grief 
by  letting  him  unburden  his  he.T-t  by  his  lamentations  and  tears. 
I  hoped  that  his  good  common  sense  would  help  him  to  over- 
come his  feelings,  but  I  was  mistaken:  his  lamentations  were  as 
long  as  those  of  [eremiah,  and  the  expressions  of  his  grief  as  bitter. 


ml 


all^!;;:Vten^^:::::;:::^^-l;^;^-  :;My  dear  Father  Daule, 

nn  excess  of  sorrow  and  re-noP  .K     f    /.       ^""'^  '^''""'^^  like  such 
entirely  under  the  control  Stt  "  ''''"-  ^vhichwas  only  and 

."What  do  y^T:l:^'^^;^Z''rr'  ^'-'^^'^ 

vvacty  which  rcscmi.lec]   nn-er  ^''  ^"■"'^'^'  ^^'^^  a 

thltl^^in^tnc^rio^hL^lo^^l^Zsr^^^'"  ^°  ^^  ^r  avoid 
you  do.  Let  u,;  keep  our  Z,  e  '  .l  n'"'?"  '''!'''  ^'"^'  '^P'-'^^k  as 
have  both  committee  m  nv  '^^ „,  ,'  V""'  ^f '"^  f^*"  °"r  sins:  we 
."^uch.  But  there  is  no  s  n  h-eVe  ll  h  ""°'  7""'^  ^"'^  ^^^"^  t"« 
limits  to.our  sorrow.  If  an  -b^r h  'l '7  "'"''  ^^'  '^"'"^ ^"easonable 
out  measure  wb-.f  in-.e   i       '         -      '''  *°  ^'^^P  and  regret  with 

alone  coJl"  ;:;i:L^  ^  ^TS'lnd  n"';'  ''^'^•••^^  Fc^^ 
Had  it  been  His  will  to  onnose  thit  /  f'"""  """^^'  P'^^^vent  it. 
in  His,  not  in  our  pov^c^'  "";'  rVt  "'lTrT'""l'^'^*'  '^  -- 
from  ,t,  because  it  was  His  vJiH  to  suffer  i"'    ^'""  '"^  ^"^^'•-' 

too  often  seen  amonc.  yl[t !  e  '  V  ^"-^P^'''^"^^  which  are 
attention  to  the  awfTd'ca  ami^  l  whi.b  l"""  -'"  "'''  ^''y  ^ ■'^"«^^i^"t 
Church.  If  you  had  mo  S  ^/^Xetf 'o'^'  "'^'^iT'"'  ^"  >•''- 
me   mstead  of  lau<,hin^.  at  my    "   ir'-Vlo         ''"^'' ^""P  ^'^'^ 

to  tellVou  thati  ml  ^  ,::,  ,  ■;;^P^^'''  '•''j'^w  me  respectfully 
Jleplorable  event  of  this  mon'uW  'V:.';.";  h?/'"- "'-^^"'-^  °^  ^l- 
to  prevent  it.  Rut  let  us  look  -Tt  that  fn.  ?  ^'''^"  '^-^  ^'°°^ 
;s  not  a  moral  action  for  us-  itdi  1  no.  l^  '"/''  ''''"P"'"  '■S^^*5  't 
than  the  spots  on  the  sun.  The  onh  1  "^'7''- '"  ""'"  ^'''l  '"ore 
that  fact  is  our  God  !  Fh-  t^'j  T^  '•:,^'^^"""  table  for 
one  who  could  see  and   prevc^n  I7i  '!"''  ^^"^  '''''  ^he  only 

my  own  mind,  I  tell  vou  here  tha  "if  T  '"r^T"  ^^■""'  P^-"*"lv, 

-  "^  serable  rat  ^^■ould  come  and  '  -  f /j'^r"  ^'^^    Almi,.hty,  and' 
deaci  before  it  could  touch  m2"'      ^  ''  "'"'  ^  ^^°"'^'  ^^''''ke  it 

H^es^t;:;^  ::r;:^;:^:;:^r  ■;^  ^.ir:^  every  ..  who  reads 
■stand  ^hatmv  fomier  so  robust  f.  •  "''"■'^'''''°"' ^'"  ""^'er- 
chano,i„.the\^-aferintom\  .;  ,/;Ti;;;  T'  P'''^''^^^^^  P"-er  of 
iron,  my  mind,  if  not  entireh  .  e-,  t  ''''^  '"''  evaporated 
^  Great  and  new  lic^hts  had  fl  .'shL  It'  'I  '"^'''"^  ^'"^^ent. 

Evidently  my  merciful  Go  ,wnZl^^^  that  hour, 

absurd.t.es  and  impieties  of  a  rSl  "  7'"  '^7  eyes  to  the  awful 
ged  and  eaten  bv  rats  hVc  1^5,^^";^,  ^"'^  ^ould  be  drajr- 
which  were  in  me  thel^  was  a'::,' i/ltt  ^  r'",'"  '^^'^'^  '^^'^^ 
the  en<l  of  that  day,  I  would  ha^e  broke.f  r?,  ^''''''-  ''''  ^^fore 


^hameful  chains  I 


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which  the  Pope  had  tied  my  neck  to  his  idol  of  bread.  In  that 
hour,  it  stemed  to  me  evident  that  the  dogma  of  Transubstantia- 
tion  was  a  more  monstrous  imposture,  and  my  priesthood  an 
insult  to  God  and  man. 

My  intelligence  said  tome,  with  a  thunderimg  voice,  "Do  not 
remain  any  longer  the  priest  of  a  god  whom  you  make  every 
day,  and  whom  the  rats  can  cat." 

Though  blind.  Father  Daule  understood  well,  by  the  stern 
accents  of  my  voice,  that  my  faith  in  that  god  whom  he  had 
created  that  morning,  and  whom  the  rats  had  eaten,  had  been 
seriously  modified,  if  not  entirely  crumbled  down.  He  remained 
silent  for  some  time:  after  which  he  in\  ited  me  to  sit  by  him.  He 
then  spoke  to  me  with  a  pathos  and  authority  which  my  youth 
and  his  old  age  alone  could  justify.  He  gave  me  the  most  awful 
rebuke  I  ever  had;  he  really  opened  on  my  poor  wavering  intelli- 
gence, soul  and  heart  all  the  cataracts  of  heaven.  He  over- 
whelmed me  with  a  deluge  of  holy  Fathers,  Councils  and  Infal- 
lible Popes,  who,  he  assured  me,  had  believed  and  preached,  be- 
fore the  whole  world,  in  all  ages,  the  dogma  of  Transubstantiation. 

If  I  had  paid  attention  to  the  voice  of  my  intelligence,  and  ac- 
cepted the  lights  which  my  merciful  God  was  giving  me,  I  could 
have  easily  smashetl  the  arguments  of  the  old  priest.  But  what 
has  human  intelligence  to  do  in  the  Church  of  Rome?  What 
could  my  intelligence  say?  I  was  forbidden  to  hear  it.  What 
was  the  weight  of  m\'  poor  isolated  intelligence  when  put  in  the 
balance  against  so  many  learned,  holy,  infallible  intelligences? 

Alas!  I  was  not  aware  then  that  the  weight  of  the  intelligence 
of  God  the  Father,  Son  and  Holy  Ghost  was  on  my  side;  and 
that,  weighted  against  tiie  intelligence  of  the  Popes,  they  were 
groater  than  all  the  worlds  against  a  grain  of  sancl. 

One  hour  after,  shedding  tears  of  regret,  I  was  at  the  feet  of 
Father  Daule,  in  the  confessional-box,  confessing  the  great  sin  I 
had  committed  by  doubting,  for  a  moment,  of  the  power  of  the 
priest  tc  change  the  wafer  into  God. 

The  old  priest,  whose  voice  had  been  like  a  lion's  voice,  when 
speaking  to  the  unbelieving  curate  of  Beauport,  had  become 
sweet  as  the  voice  of  a  lamb,  when  he  had  me  at  his  feet  confess- 
ing mv  unbelief.  He  gave  me  my  pardon.  For  my  penance, 
he  forbade  me  ever  to  say  a  word  on  the  sad  end  of  the  god  he 
had  created  that  morning;  because, said  he,  "  This  would  destroy 
the  faith  of  the  most  sincere  Roman  Catholics,"  For  the  other 
part  of  the  penance,  I  had  to  go  on  my  knees  every  day,  during 
nine  days,  before  the  fourteen  images  of  the  way  of  the  cross,  and 
say  a  penitential  psalm  before  every  picture:  which  I  did.  But 
the  sixth  dav,  the  skin  of  my  knees  was  pierced,  and  the  blood 
was  flowing  freely.  I  suffered  real  torture  every  time  I  knelt 
down  and  at  every  step  I  made.  But  it  seemed  to  me  that  these 
terrible  tortures  were  nothing  compared  to  my  great  iniquity. 

I  had  refused  for  a  moment,  to  believe  that  a  man  can  create 


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MARIOLATRY, 

brn^  forth,  is  real!"  Ji;^nhe".o"1r'"f  ^f^^  ^'-^  ^  -'» 
If  there  is  a  thin^  which  j'^'' '""'^'"''^■^PJ'cable  mysteries. 

four  it  is  that  RonKuus." t  thc'old7;  T'.  "'  'T?  ^'"^  ^^^^  '"^'ke 
and  Rome,  under  a  Christian  V."         ?.  '^'^  ''^  ^^^'h'on,  E-vpt 
atry  is  so  boldly  denied  b^nW  the    '"' !  t  '""^  '"'•■"  ^^^  ' '  '  ! 
and  so  skillfully  concealed  by  oth.M      ^''?'  '''-"'Varies  of  Rome, 
Jesus,  that  not^nlv  the  too',         ;:';-'"^'''"  ^h«.  ^Potless  robe  o 

the  old  mythology,  and  you  w Hl'seetC    T\  ''^"^.i^.'-^vvledc.e  of 
Ve   us  are  worshiped  under  the   vveet  'n  ,'  1^  '^'?  ^^"''''''^  J""^' 
they  see  agani  the  clouds  of  inceme  h' "''''  "^""'^  "^  ^"^^^ry 
the  multitudes  of  male  and  ^onvW     ?  ''"^"'»ff  «"  their  alters,  and 
the  feet  of  their  idols,^.;"^;^^ I'^f  f  ""''^  P'-^-tcd  ^^ 
the  wrath  of  their  angry  God      But  To    '  ^""'"''^'^y^  to  appease 
books  wh,ch  could  th7o;^  an^  li^hr'on^h  ;7'  7-^  ^''''  '^^  '^'^ 
the  few  who  read  these  books    u   for  n,'"''-'"'^^'  ^''"^  =""«"? 
reman,  under  the  impression  thattt,"  ^''''"''  ^'''' 

gerafon  m  what  is  said  by  Protest'    ts.  "•'  ^T''^'''^  ^^  ^^-S- 
\\hen  they  meet  a  Rom-m  ?-  H      •^'''"''  ^°'"^'- 

b.shop  itseemstothosfp  otesttt  °  '  ''"'?'.  ^^^  ^^'"  "^"'"e,  a 
and  Christian  charity  to  accu^  o?  'v^'^"'  "^  ^^"■'•"-^■^'  courte  y 
gentlemen  of  idolatr>.  '  ""'   *^^^"  '^"^P^ct,  such  refined 

ft  is  that  mispfuided  rlnrlf,,   f         i    , 
paraly.es  to-d.^  tt^^'^l^P^'^^^  ^'^JV^-^'-^'-'  ^^^^ 
and  makes  the  Church  of  Ron  e  t    bo M        i      ""'  ^^^'^O'where, 
js  ca,      „g  almost  eyerything  before  ll"-^^  n  ''""^^^  ^'^'''^  ^1^^ 
United  States,  in  Canada^andenx^fin  1  ^'r   ^T'  ^^"''^''^  ^he 
of  that  misguided  charitv',  founded  on  H^''-      '  '-"^^^'-'q^ence 
modern  Protestants,  the  Church  of  Rn       ''■""'"''^'  ignorance  of 
the  conquest  of  England  an       he  l^i";^^  T'^'^^y  "^''"■^''^ins  to 
hem,  to  the  conquest  of  the  vlorld   ev '     .  n''\''^  '"'^"  ''^'-""gh 
feres,  b^.       ,,..^,^,      ^^  sto^Tw    ^iuSl^"^  ^("^'gh^y  i„tf... 
Captam  of  our  salyation  so!.«   l.-    ^""'VP'^'^-     To-day,  the  <.rc-.f 
who  think  more  to  li^N^^  et  wir:,'"^^^  -itif  m„tiu:cS 
than  to  fight  him.     For  the  \o:Z::::i^!Zli:^t  ITZ 


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bellious  flag  the  color  and  appearance  of  the  loyal  one,  that  the 
deception  is  as  comp'cie  as  it  deplorable  in  its  effects. 

It  is  to  open  the  eyes  of  the  <rood  but  too  confident  Protestants 
of  Baltimore  that  I  write  ^his  short  treatise  to  show  that  Cardinal 
Gibbons  and  all  the  priests  of  Rome,  in  spite  of  their  denials, 
put  the  Virgin  Mary  much  above  Christ,  and  that  they  attribute 
to  her  powers,  honors  and  praises  which  ought  to  be  given  to  God 
alone. 

iJut  like  the  horse-thief,  the  Church  of  Rome  has  a  thousand 
ways  to  conceal  this,  her  great  iniquity.  If  you  meet  the  thief 
riding  on  the  very  horse  he  has  just  stolen,  and  ask  him  whose 
horse  he  is  riding,  he  has  the  most  ingenious  stories  at  hand  to 
prove  that  he  is  honest;  that  there  is  nothing  wrong  about  the 
way  he  got  that  horse.  He  assures  you  that  he  has  bought  it  in 
sucii  a  town,  or  from  such  a  traveler,  or  that  he  has  borrowed  it,  or 
found  it  loose  on  the  highway,  and  took  it  for  a  moment,  with 
the  honest  determination  to  send  it  back  to  the  owner.  So  it  is 
with  the  soul-stealing  Church  of  Rome.  Luther,  Calvin,  Knox 
and  a  million  other  unimpeachable  witnesses  and  martyrs,  have 
detected  that  church  in  ih.Qjfagrante  delicto  of  idolatry.  They 
have  j^roved  their  charges  with  the  clearest,  the  most  crushing 
evidcr.ce.  But,  at  every  time,  she  has  denied  her  guilt  with  an 
impudence  which  makes  one  remember  the  great  Father  of  lies 
who  deceived  our  first  parents  in  the  garden  of  Eden. 

But  I  have  been  twenty-five  years  one  of  those — not  horse- 
thieves,  but  soul-thieves  and  soul-m.urderers.  1  know  all  their 
great  and  small  tricks,  all  their  pious  lies,  all  their  dark  caves  and 
night  recesses.  I  have  been  a  quarter  of  a  century  swimming  in 
the  filthy  waters  in  which  the  poor  priests  and  the  haughty 
Cardinals,  and  bishops  are  plunged,  and,  with  the  grace  of  God,. 
I  will  show  that  Rome  is  idolatrous  in  her  worship  of  Mary,  with 
such  proofs  that  Cardinal  Gibbons  will  not  dare  to  deny  them. 

There  is  a  book  in  the  Church  of  Rome  which  is  esteemed 
sacred  above  every  other  book.  It  is  called  "  Breviarium." 
Every  bishop  and  priest  of  Rome  is  bound,  under  pain  of  eternal 
damnation,  to  read  every  word  of  it  at  least  once  a  year.  Among 
the  things  that  the  learned  bishop  is  bound  to  read,  repeat  and 
believe,  from  the  bottom  of  his  heart,  every  week  to  the  glory  of 
Mary,  from  that  book  are  the  following  words:  "Gaude,  Virgo 
Maria,  quia  cunctas  hereses  sola  interemisti  in  universo  mundo:" 
"  Rejoice,  Virgin  Mary,  for  thou  aloxe  hath  destroyed  all  the 
heresies  in  the  whole  world." 

Of  course,  to  address,  in  the  presence  of  God  and  man,  these 
blasphemous  words  to  Mary:  to  believe  that  the  Virgin  Mary 
ALONE  has  destroyed  "all"  heresies  which  v/ere  in  the  world, 
the  unfortunate  priests  and  bishops  of  Rome  must  silence  the 
voice  of  reason,  which  tells  them  that  this  is  sheer  absurdity  and 
nonsense;  thev  must  silence  the  voice  of  the  conscience,  which 
tells  them  that  this  is  a  blasphemous  as  well    as  a  ridiculous  lie; 


3° 

gScr^'   "'■""  "^'^^  "'  '"-»-lvc»   to  plea,e  .heh-  ,„„„..„ 

«.le  ,hc  theologians  Jj  Rom,''"r'',»;"  ""••  '^"'''l-     Oo and  con- 

la<l  been  tlestroycl  in  t  k  vvoiM        ,'^''"  '"■'"'"  ""  "^'^  ''"'■'sies 

h-  "ever  heen  Lh  i»p  /Z,'  ''  '';;;'!';];"■'"  •'!!"-'■  y-"  thee 

all  the  oil    heresies   lv„  ,.  i        ^  .'">' ^"^-J  ^vill  assure  you  that 

Y  ^he -ch-hc^;;H:s'L^,^rc";r'T''  ^r^^^;^^^'  ^'"'' --^^ 

;-'tc.  If,  from  the  thooloc' a„s  o  R  '^"'"^''^''  ^""•^''  ^^^iniquy, 
l^oman  Catholic  histori  ns  1  ^T  ^'''"  -"  '''  consult  the 
the  heresies  were  des  ro^^'j  '"^,{t  '^'•"  ^"  ^^'"  >■'>"  ^v'^^""  all 
^'lenced,  they  will,  withmit  l  i  i  r'  ''"'"•"-■'^  confounded  a..d 
th.s  is  one  of  the  mo  t  e  re  .^  n  "  ,'"  ''''''''  '''''''''''  3-»  that 
world  has  ever  heard.  tC^"  1  ,,;'"^'.  ^^"I'?^''>"«  ^'^^^  that  the 
AnuyrU,  h,,  „^.  extin  n  is  '  ""''  "V"""«lv  tell  you  that  God 
which  were  in  the  world  "  "'^  clestroyed  all  the  heresies 

<;hol:  0:!;:T^J!;r^:,^^^^^  how  the  virgin  Mary  is 
hem  at  least  onee  a  week       t         ,h     V  "''■'  1  ^'^^timore  tdls 

Mary  if  she  hll^  ^'^^.^  ^^'^  ^^'^^e  surprise  of  the  Virgin 
rics  of  Rome  th.ti  pious  lil  ,..     .  f'*"  '"everend  hij^h  dignfta- 

believe  me,  when  I  tell  them  he  hoh  9'^^°"''  will  hardly 

hood  once  a  week  '     But  i Ms  f  ""  P'"cla.m  that  puerile  false- 

esty  and  in  his  pcrf;ct  knowledge "  h  'r;j'''  '"'''-     "'  '"  ^''^  h-- 
loj?ical  as  well  as  histori  "7      .     '  •     ' ^^"'^^  ^^  P'^^^r  that  theo- 

fron.  repeating  it,  hi^  i  ^^   ,:  i;!^^' t  n"^^^^"^^"'  ^"^'  ^^^ 
forever  damned !     And  I  horn  I  i  r  ,      *f "  '  '''"'  ^'^'''t  he  will  be 
I"  the  famous  encvS  of 'S  '^'''^^^^  to  deny  it! 

cessorofPiusIXOac^'in  M  K  .  T^'^^"'"-^'  ^"^^1.  (the  prede 
;^^::  ^f  33,  which  b<^,in  w  th  :^^^\f J'^"-;--^  <lated  Wpte'mtr 
•^«1  "t  omnia  ha^c  prospe  Vet  ,,  H^  '  ^^''''''  '''''^''  ^^  '^ad: 
n^anasque  ad  sanctislin^urViro  i  .^^^v'r.^"''-^"^'  '•^^'^'^"'^  occulus 
ha'resesmteremit,  nostra  qu^l^^^'Z^lT'^'^^^'''^'  ""''versas 
^pei  nostras."  ^'''^  niaxuna  hducia,  imo,  Tota  ratio  est 

raise^!;;";^'';!^;^'^;;;^  -;;  j";^^  aH  these  blessinc^s,  let  us 

-oxKha^destrov'i'^r^^,:,^:-:-;^;;^ 

'>f  <;t'<-  hope;nav,  who  is  all    11^,^;  '     ^       'l''''"'^''^^^'^""^'ation 
f^erc,   the   infallible    Pono    '  '•'^"  "^  ""'' ^^'^P^^" 

most  infallible  wav,  that  t  e  loW  V"""'  "?)-^^'^he<lra,"  in  his 
powerwithoutthe'heloof  r!  1  ^  "■"'"  ^arv,  alone,  bv  her 
«ie.s!  But,  fearing  e4  Hi?;  r^'^^^'^^^^^^^^troved  all  the  iee^^ 
not  sufficiently  conve;  t  e  s  mcr 'v  '""""  -'^'^'^  '^  ^ary  may 
Queen  of  heaven  and  e^-th^t  .  V'lr,!!"''''^''  "^  '^'''^'  ^^'"'i^hty 
V.r.n.  Mary  is.  all   th^  fo^nH,-' "!;''' l^'^l  ^-"^"^  "'^'^  ^'^^'^^'^e 

^u.Kiation     of   the  hope  of  mankind! 


'^■'^^^l^^^w-^ 


.  .r  ri4- ^  tiTKjSi.**!,  ',i 


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"the  greatest  ij^mark  the  word  'maxima')  source  of  their  confi 
dence !" 

You  see  that  if  Cardinal  Gibbons  is  allowed  to  put  a  great 
confidence  in  Christ,  he  is  bound,  by  his  church,  to  put  his  great- 
est ("maxima")  confidence  in  Mary! 

I  congratulate  the  learned  Roman  Catholic  Cardinal  of  Balti- 
more, who  seems  to  have  the  good  sense  not  to  put  all  his  confi- 
dence in  Mary,  but  to  keep  some  for  Christ,  his  vSaviour.  I  hope 
he  will  soon  inform  us  that  he  has  taken  away  the  little  (though 
very  big)  word  all  from  before  the  name  ot  Mary,  and  put  it 
before  the  name  of  Jesus.  Yes,  I  respectfully  advise  him  to  re- 
fuse to  say  any  longer  with  his  church  that  all  his  confidence  is 
in  Mary,  but  to  proclaim  that  it  is  all  in  Jesus,  Then  he  will 
be  a  true  Christian  and  a  good  Protestant. 

But  let  us  come  again  to  the  Brcviarium.  In  the  office  of  the 
"Immaculate  Conception"  we  find  the  following  prayer,  which 
Cardinal  Gibbons  is  bound  to  address,  several  times  a  year:  "Ac- 
cipe  cpiod  offerimus,  redona  quod  logamus,  excusa  quod  timemus; 
quia  tu  es  spes  unica  peccatorum" — "Receive  what  we  offer, 
give  what  we  ask,  excuse  what  we  fear;  for  thou  art  the  only 
hope  of  sinners." 

No  doubt  that  some  of  our  readers  here  will  again  say:  "Poor 
Father  Chiniquy  is  always  exaggerating,  but  he  will  never  per- 
suade us  that  such  a  refined  gentleman,  such  a  learned  Christian 
as  Cardinal  Gibbons  has  ever  said  to  the  Virgin  Mary  that 
she  was  the  only  hope  of  sinners.  No!  Never  such  a  blasphe- 
my has  fallen  from  the  lips  of  a  Christian  so  universally  known 
and  estemed  as  the  present  Cardinal  of  Baltimore." 

But  such  is  nevertheless  the  case.  And  I  here  again  solemnly 
challenge  Cardinal  Gibbons  to  deny  it. 

That  Cardinal  Gibbons,  with  all  his  priests  and  people,  are 
bound,  under  pain  of  eternal  damnation,  to  say  to  the  Virgin 
Mary,  many  times  every  ye-.r:  "Thou  art  the  oxlv  hope    of 


smnei"s 


I" 


It  is  amusing  to  hear  the  bishops  and  priests  of  Rome  speak- 
ing on  that  matter  before  Protestants.  It  is  then  evident  that 
they  see  their  idolatry — and  they  are  ashamed  of  it.  They  then 
tell  us  that  it  is  Jesus  who  is  the  "only"  hope  of  sinners. 

Yes!  when  in  the  presence  of  a  Protestant  public,  I  am  glad 
to  hear  that  Cardinal  Gibbons  protests  against  the  ordinances 
of  his  Church,  which  wants  him  to  say  to  Mary,  "Thou  art  the 
ONLY  hope  of  sinners." 

I  know  there  are  many  priests  of  Rome  to-day  (and  1  hope 
Cardinal  Gibbons  is  one  of  them)  who  are  disgusted  with  the 
idolatrous  iloctrines  of  their  Church;  they  see  with  true  horror  the 
abominations  of  her  doctrines,  but  they  feel  they  are  her  children, 
and  as  such  thev  put  their  mantle  over  her  shoulders  to  conceal  her 
shame  as  much  as  possible  from   the  eye  of  the  outside  world. 


II 


32 

^^r!Z!:jZ:'l^:r'  ^'-'7"j"y  "-the-;  l..,  as  .lutifur 
perhaps;.  ^t'Loe^l  c  wH  TP'  '  ^:'"^'"^='f^--t  her;  thcv, 
beconiea  truly  h  >  c^moU.cr'  -m^    "',^^"  'T  '^  '"'''T''^^'  ^'"^' 

when  thev  arc  hishom  ,  r  ,  "ic    s    s,..         .'''^'V'T''  P^"-^'^'"I-'"ly 
them  so  vvell!    She  is  so  rich      ri  i  ''  T'"''^""'  '''"'^  '"^'^c^ 

herself  arv  so  no  xMfu  so  m.  J  "'  ''"''  '"  ^'''"  ^^'^^^  P''>'^titutes 
are  such  spleiulors  inside  the  walls  „f  ho,  N  ,  i^  ^  '''"''■*-" 
extend  h.r  power  all  <,vcr  the  o  Id  = '' n  '^""^'^•'  ^^"''«  '^'^^  not 
of  the  .....h'tiest  nations  t  L  ^e  ^  H^s  ^1  ''  ""'  '''  '"''^'-'^ 
unity?     Does  she  not  m-irchVn  H,  ^'  "''^  ''  '"atchlcss 

an  irresistihle  power!      "'"''  '°  '''"  '"'""^1^"''^^  ^^  ^'^^  world   with 

^r^^^r'ZtLST^  ^y   anticipa- 

^tionc  with  h^peo,  ij  u?hl",  ,^.^:;',^;'  '^'^'i  t'---  a  week,  when 
can  r  conc,n-atu late  m  when  to  I  "'7'''  ^- °^'"  ^"'"  ^'■""'^'■^•"  ^or 
testants,  he  cites  trtcx^e'r' ''"' W^^'  ^'>'^'^  "^  ^he  Pre 
Church  teaches  it  l^  ^d';:^  ,^X::i^;,^V;The  Catholic 

fir  S"'"^  in  heaven  with  Lri.,  i: j::{:^\^%z  r:!;: 

For,  to  say  that  it  is  "<rood"   to  invt«   at 
that  h  is  .„ec..,„,.v"  .o  invoL.  lor      We  cH    ''.,""'  *">;'"? 
ujvoke  the  name  of  Tesim  "  »,:fi       .  ,'?     ^^y  ^'  '•'^  &o<h    to 

"I.  i.  nece»a,v"„1,J;:n'  ."e"      ."/"o'^:  L"'"'" ^'^^  7"°  T 
Church  of  Rome  says  "It  is  ^mn,]  fr.  •     '  i      V.      ^"'   '^^''^'^"    the 

-i".V'  she  .iocs  no.\le„v,,,?r»'°„r:tv  ,:■■•■  '""I  "'7*er 
V\  hen  a  thin.r  ;^  „„......:...  ._  ^  ,  '\.»ecessary  to  mvoke  them  '» 


When  a  thin^r  is  nece  s  rv  to  s .  v  ..  'f'''''-'^  *^  '"^"^^^  them, 
word  "oood"  is  leffon  H  '  ''''\'^,''^^"  ^^  is  surely  "good."  Th 
"necessarr^'  b    '^^  ?^.    !,!^'^^'^'^ '^^  ^1^  ^-'th^vUh  the  w^n 


e 

•d 


"necessary,"  by  the  d     ch  of  R    n         T  ''"'^  ^"'^'^  '^'^  "^ord 

as  when  ;  3eak-ing  of  M     V      IM     i!;  T^^     '^^"''^-'"^   "^  J-"« 
when  applied  to  Mary  and"  thl  «  •  '^  "''"'''  ''"'^   "^  errors 

Ch..ch^Uome,^^L^l^t  ::;^v:;^^^     '::  ^'-,^P-tate 
^^^.^contained  n.  the  word  .,ood,'l  ^j'th^t^^rl^S 

th.t^;:^:^fo?U!:.^^-^?Ll;;:"!::^^j^"-;  ^^  ^^me, 

mgs  of  the  so-called  saints   ,  rc^.chod  <-"     '  "■?"-''  the  teach- 

slaves,  as  she  does  to-clay  \  '  m"  ,  I-  I'^h '*"'  '''"^'  '^^""'-^^"t 
smners,"  the  "ox.y  foundatbn  of  tliei,  ho 'es'"  ''T  ^''^  '"'' 
count,  It  was  then    -.s  ,>  Je  „  ,  ""P^S    and,  on  that  ac- 

-iii'i^  «<  "n...ie,I; ;:  •:.:,;' ,.;  '"^;7i  7rrK  '•"  '^' 

will  sometimes  blush  for  her  own  i,  I . '?         '''^''ndoned  woman 

and  speak  words  which  the  n^   I       '    "'''  '^"'  ""  ''"'-^  '^f  virtue, 

the  Church  of  RomeTa  tth    Conn        *f  t"'"'"  '^""^^'  '•'^P'^''^^  «« 

hcMM^wnimpietiesand^do    tries   'si    ',ic?n"^^^^^ 

<r6s.,.^c^j.  necessary,  ^he  worsSp  ^^^^  ^^    l^^^^  P-h.in.,  as 


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of  an  indignant  Christian  world  were  upon  her;  she  then  chose 
a  word  which  could  be  used  as  a  kind  of  veil,  to  conceal  as  much  as 
possible  her  gross  idolatry ;  though  there  was  enough  in  it  to  help 
her  to  continue  her  implacable  war  against  God  and  His  Christ^ 

True  to  her  diabolical  mission,  which  is  to  be  at  the  head  of  the 
enemies  of  Jcsus,and  to  offer  another  Saviour  to  sinners,  she  con- 
tented  herself  with  saying,"lt  is  good  and  profitable  to  go  to  Mary, 
to  invoke  her  name  to  obtain  favors  from  God  through  His  son, 
Jesus  Christ."  In  that  decree  she  calls  Christ  "the  only  Re- 
deemer and  wSaviour  of  the  world."  But  this  was  mere  dust 
ihrown  into  the  eyes  of  the  world,  for  she  k'ow  very  well  that  her 
slaves  firmly  believe  that  "Mary  was  the  only  hope — the  only 
refuge  of  sinners." 

When  the  learned  Cardinal  Gibbons  reads  this  letter  he  will 
be  forced,  in  snitc  of  himself,  to  confess  that  his  Church  says, 
"Mary  is  the  only  hope  for  sinners,"  and  very  often  he  himself 
is  obliged  to  say,"Marv  is  the  only  hope  of  sinners."  But  to 
save  appearances,  and  in  order  not  to  be  forced  to  publicly  ac- 
knowledge that  his  Church  is  idolatrous,  and  that  he  is  himself  an 
idolator,  he  will  tell  you  that  the  word  "only"  does  not  mean 
"only."  He  will  bravely  tell  you  that  when  he  says,  "Mary  is 
the  'only'  hope  of  sinners,  this  does  not  mean  at  all  that  'Mary 
is  the  only  hope  of  sinners." 

And  if  you  ask  him.  What  then,  is  the  meaning  of  the  word 
"only?"  he  will  tell  you  that  the  infamous  Chiniquy  is  an  apos- 
tate, who,  for  good  reasons,  has  been  a  hundred  times  interdicted, 
suspended,  excommunicated:  which  will  be  a  clear  argument  to 
prove  that  the  Church  of  Rome  does  not  insult  Jesus  Christ,  and 
that  she  is  only  idolatrous  when  she  says  to  Mary,  "Thou  art  the 
only  hope  of  sinners." 

We  have  a  French  proverb  which  says,  "Le  menteur  n'a  pas  de 
memoire  et  se  contredit  souvent" — "Theliar  has  no  memory  an<J 
often  contradicts  himself."  So  the  Church  of  Rome  soon  forgets 
and  contradicts  the  few  good  words  she  says  about  Jesus  Christ. 
True  to  her  tendency  to  idolatry,  after  having  said  that  Jesus  was 
the  only  Saviour  of  the  world,  she  employed  all  the  eloquence  of 
her  orators,  all  the  science  of  her  theologians  to  persuade  sinners 
to  address  themselves  to  Mary,  by  assuring  them  that  "she  is  the 
door  of  heaven,  and  the  only  hope  of  sinners." 

The  learned  Cardinal  will  not  be  worse  than  his  Church  if  he 
tells  you  that  the  word  only  ised  in  connection  with  the  name 
of  Mary,  as  the  only  hope  of  sinners,  does  not  mean  only. 

When  speaking  to  the  Protestants,  and  trying  to  deceive  them 
by  her  enchantments,  that  Church  says,  with  great  solemnity  and' 
emphasis,  "Jesus  is  the  only  hope — the  only  Saviour  of  sinners."' 
But  laughs'nt  these  expressions  when  speaking  to  her  obedient 
priests  and  blind  slaves.  She  then  says,  "It  is  Mary,  and  Mary 
alone,  who  destroys  all  the  heresies  of  the  world !  It  is  Mary,  and 
Mary  alone,  who  is  the  hope  of  sinners  1     It  is  to  Maiy,  and 


il 


i 


34 


through  Mary  A  LONE,  that  the 


'M 


ana  uiiica 


spec  peccatorum! 


poor  sinner  nnist  look  to  l)e  saved !' 


%t 


The  more  one  stiuh'es  and  k 


vnows  Rome  as  she  is,  the 


.,,,,1.    1,     ,1  1         ,.    .  ■■   ■  ^»-^^'">-  aa  sue  IS, 

';.  1.  'r,:"l"'=">-  ^V^  -'"?"  »h^-  speaks  and 


more  he 


IS 


The  Ignorant  and  blind  mnltitudes  of  her  followers  1  ]Z  . 

shows  only  one'  side  o£  Ws     c'c'   i  '.e  Jh     h"';;",!" '/'  '''""'', 

w,s;:^d  rij':j;';::f;j^-;^'°f'-'^pi  >ioc.:-:e'Tk 

ant  when  arguin,  :;.'ii?::,:: S'l  ,  i::?:^^;:™;^';,':^  1? '^""• 

or  even  the  poor,  a  hundre.l  times  excjn™,  ic«ed  p?-  '' 
For  we  know  all  the  tricks  of  Rome;  wT  a™  Shern"'''"^'- 
ous  waters;  wo  have  pitmged  into  the  hot  nm?„«  ,  \      °"- 

iqnitie,;  we  have  in  onr  hands    lTti,c  proof    th.^R  °'  ''f'    "• 

p^C^:dl?-r;&srtri^ 

from  one  of  the  most  appi^ved  booL  t  '  /^l  '  ''?"'  fc^°'"^' 
and  they  will  understand  what  br^  ;;1a  "  ct lin-d  C^^l  ""' 
and  his  pnests  have,  when  they  denv  th-,t  their  P  9'^  '°"''^ 

trous  in  her  worship  of  Mary:  ^  '"'''^'  ''  '''°^^- 

"The  High  Chancellor  of  Paris    Tnhn  n^,-  ,•      • 

the  words  of  Davi(l--.Thesetwrthin°svuT?''  'T^l^'^'^'''-  '^'^ 
belongeth  to  God,  and  me";  to  t  e"  q  ^  rl 'Tp''/ "-^  ^^T '" 
says,  that  the  kingdom  of  God,  consis'tinl  o      ,'  r  f''  '^^~- 

the  Lord  has  divided  it-  Ho  h'l  ,  ,^,^  J""^'^"^'  ='"''    mercy, 

for  Himself,  a  d  1  e  h'  s'  ^  nnted  tt^r-'  !'''  '">^^'"'"  «^  J"^^'-- 
ordaining  that  all  the  m^  Stl  h  e^^^lr"^  ^^  f  ^'■>'' 
pass  through  the  hands  of  Mary  an  1  shouW  f-  '  "  ""?  '''°"'^' 
ing  to  her  good  pleasure.  ( PI  i  Tr  b  ^^  aT"''  f"'^^''^^" 
Thomas  confirm^  this  in  hi  p ref^";  I  the  p'^  ^"^I'i  •  '^^• 
saying  that  the  Holv  Virc^in  wh^i  sbo  1  <^ '"""'^al  Epistle, 
Word  in  her  womb,\.nd  WH^t  h"..    %f'"f '':"^'  ^'^^^   divine 

the  kingdom  of  God  b^  ber^i   g  Q         '^^^r  "t  ^'^  ''rf  ^' 
'•"^naming  King  of  Justice.  -^ '  -' ^'''"•'*  Christ 


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^     -        ,  -      -  -7      (Pis.   Ixxi.    2.)        j.^tit   a   iciiiucu 

interpreter  takes  up  the  subject,  and  says:  'O  Lord,  thou  hast 
given  thy  Son  Thy  justice,  because  Thou  hast  g^ven  to  the 
Mother  of  the  King  Thy  mercy.'  And  St.  Bonaventure  happily 
varies  the  passage  above  quoted  by  saying,  'Give  to  the  King  Thy 
judgment,  O  God;  and  to  His  Mother  Thy  Mercy.'  Ernest, 
Archbishop  of  Prague,  also  says,  'That  the  Eternal  Father  has 
given  to  the  Son  the  office  of  judging  and  punishing,  and  to  the 
mother  the  office  of  compassionating  and  relieving  the  wretched.' " 
(Glories  of  Mary,  by  St.  Liguori, pages  27-29.) 

If  these  blasphemous  words  are  not  sufficient  to  prove  that 
Cardinal  Gibbons  and  his  priests  give  an  idolatrous  worship  to 
Mary,  let  the  Protestants  of  the  United  States  read  the  followino- 
page,  from  the  same  book,  which  the  three  last  Popes  have  ap*'- 
proved.  They  will  see  with  their  own  eyes,  and  hear  with 
their  own  ears,  not  from  the  lips  of  Chiniquy,  but  from  the 
very  lips  of  the  Church  of  Rome,  that  the  Virgin  Mary  is  wor- 
shipped as  being  the  intercessor  between  the  sinner  and  God  the 
Father.  One  of  the  most  impudent  falsehoods  with  which  the 
priests  of  Rome  blind  their  poor  dupes,  and  even  the  protestants 
who  are  not  on  their  guard  against  the  enchantments  of  the 
great  mother  sorceress  of  the  Vatican,  is  that  Mary  is  the  only 
intercessor  between  the  sinner  and  Christ.  There  they  will  see 
how  it  is  to  God  the  Father  directly  she  carries  her  petitions, 
and  how  she  is  considered  by  her  devotees,  and  considers  herself, 
the  only  mediator  between  the  sinner  and  God  the  Father: 

"  We  read  in  the  second  book  of  Kings  thatthe  wise  woman  of 
Tekoa  said  to  David:  'My  Lord,  I  had  two  sons,  and  for  my 
misfortune  one  has  killed  the  other,  so  that  I  have  already  lost  a 
child;  justice  would  not  take  from  me  my  other  and  only  son; 
have  mercy  upon  me,  a  poor  mother,  and  not  let  me  be  deprived 
of  both  rny  children.'  Then  David  had  compassion  on  this 
mother,  liberated  the  criminal,  and  returned  him  to  her. 

"  It  appears  that  Mary  offers  the  same  petition  when  God  is 
angry  with  a  sinner  who  has  recourse  to  her.  'O  my  God!'  she 
says  to  Him,  'I  had  two  sons,  Jesus  and  man;  man  has  killed  my 
Jesus  on  the  cross:  Thy  justice  would  now  condemn  man:  my 
Lord,  my  Jesus  is  dead;  have  mercy  upon  me,  and  if  I  have  lost 
one,  do  not  condemn  me  to  lose  the  other  also.'  Ah,  God  assur- 
edly does  not  condemn  the  sinners  who  have  recourse  to  Mary, 
and  fc  •  whom  she  prays,  since  God  has  given  the  sinners  to 
Mary  for  her  children."  (Glories  of  Mary, by  St.  Liguori, pages 
73-74-). 

Here  is  the  true  doctrine  of  Rome  about  Mary,  given  not  bv 
me,  nor  nnv  enomv  of  the  Church  of  Rome  but  {t!vp!!  h"  nne  of 
the  greatest  saints  and  theologians  of  that  Church!     In  this  bias- 


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■I 


phemous  prayer,  put  on  the  lips  of  their  modern  goddess,  the 
resurrection  of  Christ  is  forgotten  and  denied!  He  is  dead  He 
can  not  be  any  more  the  intercessor  between  His  Father  and  the 
guilty  children  of  Adam!  but,  happily,  they  don't  want  him  to 
pray  and  intercede  for  them.  They  have  Mary,  who  says  to  God 
the  Father,  "  Man  has  killed  my  son  Jesus.  Do  not  deprive  me 
then,  of  my  only  surviving  son  man!" 

And  with  such  a  book  in  his  hands— such  doctrine  in  his  mind 
—such  blasphemies  on  his  lips.  Cardinal  Gibbons  bravelv  tells 
us,  through  his  priest  Lynch,  that  the  relative  worship  of  Marv 
IS  not  idolatry !  .  ^ 

.u^^u^^'P^  I  ^8  of  the  same  book    we    read:  "Saint  Ira;nus  says 
that  the  Divine  word, before  incarnating  himself  in  the  womb  of 
Mary   sent  the  archangel  to  obtain  her  consent,  because  he  would 
have  the  world  indebted  to  Mary  for  the  Mystery  of  incarnation"' 

Has  ever  hell  let  more  blasphemous  words  go  from  its  dark 
recess  than  this?  In  the  Church  of  Rome  it  is  not  the  infinite 
compassion  and  love  of  God  that  we  are  indebted  to  for  the  in- 
carnation  of  Christ — it  is  to  Mary ! 

On  page  119  of  the  same  book  we  read:  "Also  Idiot  remarks 
that  every  grace,  every  bles.ing  that  men  have  received  or  will 
receive  from  God,  to  the  end  of  world,  has  come  to  them  and 
will  come  to  them  through  the  intercession  and  by  the  means  of 
Mary.     (Glories  of  Mary,  page  1 19) 

St.  Germanus,  recognizing  "  Mary  to  be  the  source  of  every 
blessing  and  the  deliverance  from  every  evil,  thus  invokes  he,: 
U  my  Lady,  thou  ALONE  art  my  help  given  me  by  God:  thou 
art  the  guide  of  my  pilgrimage,  the  support  of  m  v  weakness,  my 
riches  in  poverty,  my  deliverance  from  bondage,the  hope  of  my 
salvation;  graciously  listen,  I  pray  thee,  to  my  supplications,  take 
compassion  on  my  sighs,  thou  my  Queen,  my  refuge,  my  life,  my 
help,  my  hope,  my  strength."  (Glories  of  Mary,  page  120  ) 

But  in  order  to  show  in  what  manner  Christ  is  exalted  above 
^  J  n-t^^  ^^'"'^^  ^^  ^^'^^'  '^^  t^^^  Protestants,  whom  Car- 
r  ^  .u  .^?"'  •'''''"*^'^  ^"^  ^^'""^  ""  th^  Sti^  «f  December  last, 
of'lhlpo  es""^'"^  story,  published  with  the  infallible  authorities 

"  In  the  Franciscan  chronicle  it  is  related  of  Brother  Leo,  that 

nn7r'  iT  '"  '"''  '"'^''"V  .''P^"  ^^'^^^  J^«"^  Christ  was  standing, 
and  a  white  one  upon  which  stood  His  holy  Mother.  He  saw 
many  persons  attempting  to  ascend  the  red  ladder;  they  ascended 

theTht'f  n'^'^"/^"-,  V'^''  '''^y-^^'^  exh^rt'ftrascend 
V,W  n    ff       wr'"'^2"  '^r''  '^"  ^'^^  *'^^'"  succeed,for  the  blessed 

s^  l^i  ?nf/'r  "Z  ^'i.^''"^^'  ''"^'  '^''y  ^"•'•'^'^^'  '■»  tl^^'t  manner 
safe  in  paradise.     St.     Denys,  the  Carthusian,  asks:  "Who  will 

^nd  w  n'"f  •   ^^^'^  "'i'  ''''  '■^'^"  '"  heaven'?  They  are  sav^d 

nravlr  '' 7rln  /  ''"?  aJ"'  ^^'"'^  ''^"  ^"^'^^  ^^  ^ercy  offers  her 
prayers.     (Glories  of  Mary,  page  279.) 

I  may  here  be  asked  by  many,  "How  is  ' 


il  possible  that  a  man 


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•of  the  ability  and  learning  of  Cardinal  Gibbons  does  not  see 
that  his  church  is  idolatrous?  How  can  he  come  so  boldly  before 
the  world  and  deny  that  idolatry,  when  it  is  so  evident? 

There  is  only  one  way  of  answering  that  question;  it  is  to 
read  the  second  chapter  of  the  2d  Thessalonians: 

"  That  mystery  of  iniquity  doth  already  work. 

"  And  then  shall  that  wicked  be  revealed,  whom  the  Lord 
shrill  consume  with  the  spirit  of  His  mouth,  and  shall  destroy 
with  the  brightness  of  his  coming. 

"  Even  Him,  whose  coming  is  after  the  working  of  Satan, 
with  all  power  and  signs  and  lying  wonders. 

"  And  with  all  the  deceivableness  of  unrighteousness  in  them 
that  perish;  because  they  received  not  the  love  of  the  truth,  that 
they  might  be  saved. 

"  And  for  this  cause  God  shall  send  them,  strong  delusions, 
that  they  should  believe  a  lie. 

"  That  they  all  might  be  damned  who  believe  not  the  truth, 
but  had  pleasure  in  unrighteousness." 

I  will  not  accuse  Cardinal  Gibbons,  or  any  of  his  priests,  of 
dishonesty.  My  firm  belief  is  that  many,  if  not  all,  are  honest  in 
their  awful  errors.  Yes,  they  are  honest  as  many  priests  of  the 
White  Elephant  in  Siam,  or  the  priests  of  the  Sun  in  Persia,  and 
the  priests  of  Mahomet  in  Constantinople  are  honest.  The  priests 
and  bishops  of  Rome  are  as  honest  at  the  feet  of  the  wafer-gods 
and  their  goddess  Mary  as  the  priests  of  Baal  were  at  the  feet  of 
their  idols.  Such  honesty  at  the  feet  of  mute  and  contemptible 
ido^s  is  one  '^f  the  saddest  mysteries  of  our  poor,  corrupt  and  fal- 
len human  nature.  We  must  not  insult  or  despise  these  men; 
we  must  pity  them,  and  pray  for  them. 

In  order  to  enlist  more  surely  the  pity  and  compassion  of  the 
disciples  of  the  Gospel  in  favor  of  Cardinal  Gibbons  and  his 
poor  deluded  and  blind  slaves,  I  will  end  this  short  treatise  by 
copying  two  facts  given  by  St.  Liguori  in  that  most  approved 
and  circulated  book  of  Rome,  "  The  Glories  of  Mary."  These 
two  facts  will  explain  why  the  Roman  Catholics  are  fallen,  every- 
where, into  such  a  bottomless  abyss  of  immorality  and  degradation 
that  they  seem  unable  to  be  raised  again  to  the  level  of  the  Chris- 
tian atmosphere  of  honesty.  In  reading  these  histories,  which 
t '  0  bishops  and  priests  of  Rome  present  to  tlie  people  as  most 
edifying  ones,  every  one  will  see  how  the  modern  idolatry  of 
Rome,  as  its  old  idolatry,  has  brought  her  into  the  most  deplor- 
able state  of  moral  degradation  and  intellectual  depravity. 


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FIRST    STORY. 


y 


"  Our  advocate  (the  Virgin  Mary)  has  shown  how  great  is  her 
kindness  towards  sinners  by  her  mercy  to  Beatrix,  a  puu  in  the 
monastery  of  Fontebraldo,  as  related  by  Cesarius  and  Father 
Riiu  This  unhappy  nun,  having  contracted  a  passion  for  a  certain 
youth,  Agreed  to  flee  with  him  from  the  convent;  and,  in  fact,  she 
went  one  day  before  a  statue  of  the  blessed  Virgin,  there  deposi- 
ted the  keys  of  the  monastery — for  she  was  portress — and  boldly 
departed.  Arrived  in  another  country,  she  led  the  miserable  life 
of  a  prostitute  for  fifteen  years.  It  happened  that  she  met,  one 
day,  the  agent  of  the  monastery  in  the  city  where  she  was  living, 
and  asked  of  him,  thinking  he  would  not  recognize  her  again,  if 
he  knew  Sister  Beatrice?  'I  know  her  well,'  he  said,  'she  is  a 
holy  nun,  and  at  present  is  Mistress  of  Novices.' 

"At  this  intelligence  she  was  confounded  and  amazed,  not 
knowing  how  to  understand  it.  In  order  to  ascertain  the  truth, 
she  put  on  another  dress,  and  went  to  the  monastery.  She  asked 
for  Sister  Beatrice,  and,  behold!  the  most  holy  Virgin  appeared 
before  her  in  the  form  of  that  same  image  to  which,  at  parting, 
she  had  committed  her  keys  and  her  dress.  And  the  divine 
Mother  spoke  thus:  'Beatrice,  be  it  known  to  thee,  that,  in  order 
to  prevent  thy  disgrace,  I  assumed  thy  form,  and  have  filled  thy 
oflice  for  the  fifteen  years  that  thou  has  lived  far  from  the  mon- 
astery and  from  God.  My  child  return  and  do  penance:  for  my 
Son  IS  still  waiting  for  thee:  and  strive  by  thy  holy  life  to  pre- 
serve the  good  name  I  have  gained  thee." 

"She  spoke  thus  and  disappeared.  Beatrice  re-entered  the  nun- 
nery; and,  gratified  for  the  mercy  of  Mary,  led  the  life  of  a 
saint.  At  her  death  she  made  known  the  foregoing  incident,  to 
the  glory  of  this  great  Queei  "  (Glories  of  Mary,  page  224.) 


SECOND    STORY. 

"A  servant  of  Mary  went,  one  day,  to  visit  a  church  of  our 
Blessed  Lady,  without  the  knowledge  of  her  husband,  and  she 
was  prevented,  by  a  severe  storm,  from  returning  that  night  to  her 
own  house.  She  felt  a  great  fear  lest  her  husband  should  be  very 
angry  with  her ;  but  she  recommended  herself  to  Mary,  and  when 
she  returned  home,  her  husband  was  very  kind  and  gracious  to 
her.  Upon  questioning  him,  she  found  that  the  evening  before, 
the  divine  Mother  had  taken  her  form  and  attended  to  all  the 
little  affairs  of  the  household.  She  then  related  the  occurrence  to 
her  husband,  and  they  both,  afterwards,  practiced  great  devotion 
to  the  blessed  Virgin."   (Glories  of  Mary,  page  701.) 

Thus  it  is  that  after  having  raised  Mary  above  Christ,  by  cal- 
ling her  the  only  hope  of  sinners,  the  only  foundation  of  our  sal- 
vation, the  only  destroyer  of  heresy,  the  gate  of  heaven,  etc.,  etc., 


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.he  Church  of  Ron.  degrade,  and  ai^*™ors  her  by  bringing 
her  down  to  a  level  with  women  we  cjjo'  f  ™h^  _^j^  ^^  ^^^^ 

haSefSna^'eS^oZe"  .^''^■^»  ^^^^  >'  ^"^ -"'^'' 
honest  and  holy  among  men.  ^    CHINIQUY. 

WHY  WE  MUsf^SjFSS  TRUST  IN  JESUS 
ALONE  AND  NOT  INVOKE  MARY. 

THE  CRUC^.riED  J-^SUS^^  THE  PENITENT 

.And  when  o,.  of  the  ^^^::^^:^-^'V:^ 

on  him,  saying,  'If  ^^°"  ^f  ^^.f  f^^i^^^^^  fear  God 

other,  answering,  rebuked  h"^;^^^y/"-      j  ^^>     ^nd  we,  indeed 

seeing  thou  art  n.  ^  ^  ^^^^^  ^^^.^^^^^^^^^^^^ 

justly,  for  we  receive  tlie  due  lewa  ,  ^ord^ 

Lth  done  nothing  amiss  ^"^y^^^^,;"\i  kingdom.'  And 
remember  -^^^ J^:^;^::^ ^1  you^o-day,  shalt  thou 
Jesus  said  unto  him,    v  ei uy         y  ^ 

be  with  me  in  Paradise!        (^";%;^3  ^faVing  on  the  cross  and 
This  sublime  dialogue  between  Jesus  dy    g^^^^^      ^^  ^^^^  ^^^_ 

the  repenting  smner  is  t  e  '^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  ,,  it  is  the  measure 
sign  of  the  mission  of  Jesus  <-  ?^^f  ^P"^'' ^^^^ite^t  sinner  ought  to 
of^he  unlimited   confidence   tha    U  e   pemt^^  ^^^^^^.^^^^ 

place  in  the  mercy   of  the  ^;^;^?"^;  ^^.  are  sufficient 

^^^XSt^S^'l^^^^  towards  Mary,  as  the 
SLt  solid  foundation  of  the.  .dva^on^  ^^^^  ^^^^  ^^^^,^^, 

During  this  ^^^f  og"%,^"f"Mary  was  at  the  foot  of  the  cross; 
thief,St.Johntelsus  that  Mai  yw^  ^^^  passing  there. 

then   we  can  believe  ^1--^.^  .f  ^^^^^^^ 

And  how  she  must  have  f eit  h^r  J^;  j^j^  ^^^.-       kindness  Jesus 
of  her  bitter  grief,  when  ^^^  hea^d  w^  |     ^^^^^  ^j^^^,  ^e 

saying  to  the  companion  of  his  sutteung  , 

with  me  in  Paradise."  conversion  of  the  thief  were 

No   doubt  that    he   f-th^^^^^^^^^^^         of  Jesus,  and  that  they 
infinitely  pleasing  to    he  holy  ^^^^  ^^^^.  ^^  ,„^,. 

brought,  for  a  ^^^^^^^'.^Snted  to  u»  upon  Calvary  is  one  of 

The  spectacle  which  is  P  ^se  tea  j^^  ^^^^^^.  ^^  ^^^^  ^^ 

such  sublimity  and  gram|evu   ^hat  ja  ^^^^^^^    ^^^^^  ^^^^^ 

:i;nnr:rirh".efeelonrselvesp^^^^^^^^^^ 


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by  such  a  sentiment  of  love  and  confidence  in  the  Saviour,  that 
wc  can  no  longer  speak  of  him  but  with  tears.  We  fee!  that  to 
distrust  Jesus,  or  doui)t  His  love  and  mercy  for  sinners,  is  one 
of  the  greatest  crimes  of  which  man  can  be  guilty. 

But  let  us  suppose  that  the  penitent  thief,  instead  of  address- 
ing the  crucified  Jesus,   and  turning  all  the  thoughts  and  affec- 
tions of  his  heart  toward  the   Saviour  of  the  world,  had  turned 
his  thoughts  and   hopes  towards   Mary,  as  the  Roman  Church 
advises  all  sinners,  and  especially  dying  sinners,  to  do— suppose 
the  penitent  thief,  instead  of   saying  to  Jesus,  »  Remember  me 
when  thou   comest   into  thy  kingdom,"  had   said  what  all  the 
popes,  bishops  and  priests  of  Rome   put  into  the  mouth  of  sin- 
ners, "  Lord  Jesus,  I  have  been  so  wicked  that  I  do  not  deserve 
to  speak   to  you,  nor   to  be   heard   by  you.     But,  behold  your 
mother!     Her  female  heart  must  naturally  be  more  feeling  and 
more  compassionate   than   yours;  she,  then,   will   listen   to  me 
better  than  you  will;  she  will  be  more  easily  touched  with  pity 
for  my  unfortunate  lot  than   you.     Do   not  take  it  amiss,  then, 
.that  I  should  address   myself   to   her  in   preference   to  you,  in 
order  to  get  help  in   the  miseries   that   oppress  me.     I  dare  not 
speak  to  you  myself,  for  you  are  the  Holy  of  Holies,  and  I  am  a 
miserable  sinner.     But  I  will  speak  to  you  through  your  motheiij 
she  will  demand   from  you  grace   and  mercy  for  me.     A  good 
son  refuses  nothing  to   his   mother!     You   cannot,  then,  refuse 
her  what  she  will  ask  of  you   for   me;  for  she  has  an  authority 
over  you  that  you  cannot  disown.     The  favor  which,  then,  you 
would  refuse  to   a   criminal   like   me,   will   be  easily  granted  to 
her,  whom  you  can  not   refuse   anything.     You   are   come  into 
the  world,  I  know,  armed   with   the   inexorable  justice  of  your 
Father  to  punish  the  guilty.    But  whilst  God  the  Father  has  given 
to  you  the  mission  of  justice  and  chastisement,  He  has  given  to 
your  mother  the  mission  of  mercy  and  pardon.     I  know  that  with- 
out Mary  I  am  lost;  fo'-  it  is  she  that  is  the  gate  of  heaven,  the 
refuge  of  sinners.     My  chosen   advocate  is  your  mother;  I  fear 
nothing,  for  I  know  you  can  refuse  her  nothing." 

We  ask  all  men  to  whom  God  has  given  a  spark  of  Christian 
intelligence,  would  such  language  in  the  mouth  of  the  thief  have 
been  suitable?  Would  it  have  pleased  and  honored  the  Holy 
Virgin?  In  one  word,  would  it  have  obtained  from  the  Saviour 
this'answer:  "  To-dav  shalt  thou  be  with  me  in  Paradise?  " 

Roman  Catholics  who  read  these  lines,  do  you  not  understand 
that  each  of  these  words,  if  they  had  been  spoken  by  the  thief  on 
the  cross,  would  have  been  blasphemy — an  outrage  on  Jesus 
Christ,  and  an  insult  to  the  Holy  Vir.u^in?  But  see,  now,  with- 
out anv  exaggeration,  the  sentiments  with  which  your  Roman 
■Church  wishes  to  inspire  you!  You  know^  that  these  are  the 
very  words  which  she  makes  you  learn  by  heart,  that  she  makes 


y 


nu  read  in  all  vour 


books,  and  that  she  announces  to  you  by  her 


priests,  in  order  that  you  should  address  them  to  Jesus  Christ! 


5    '   f. 


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1  ^c«tl-.nt  after  this  language  was  addressed 

Letusgoouandsuppose  1  a  ,aftei  tm^       g   ^»^  ^^.^.^.^^ 

tojesusuponthecross^thetlef    sp  a^^  ^^^  ^1,, 

had  said  to  her,  '  O  Mary,  ^  ^«^^Y  mv  faith:  you  are  the  gate 

only  foundation  of  'J^Y  ^-P^  ^^f  ,^^  ,^^1  the  s^^ 
of  heaven,  the  consolation  o     he  '  «lic^^^^^^^  ^^  i^^^^^n 

It  is  through  you  « J;- ,th.jt  all  tl-  g-- ;^^^  ^^^^^  J^^^^^.^^  ^ere- 
descend  upon  the  eaith.  U  ''^/y  J  ^  ^yj^^^^  you:  son  Jesus 
sies  and  sins  are  destroyed  m  the  ^^  ^^  W  hil  y^^^  ^^^^  J^^  ^^ 
has  for  his  mission  to  cause  the  nexotah^^^^^  ^  ^  ^^^^^^^^ 

reign  in  the  world,  it  is  your  pat  t  ^o  e^ecu^^  m  J  ^  ^^^^^^^^  ^.^ 
wlfo  put  their  confidence  -ly-^^^^'^Zlt,  %,,  Jn  are  always 
of  your  P-ye-wd  be  saved  ^Th-™  j;,,,ik„ow,  to  pre- 
raised  to  punish  and  ciush  tnt.  ^'""^   '         ^  ^^    ^     o^„.  son  is 

vent  his  avenging  f  ^  ^^^vl^^^e^^^^^^^^  ^Be  pleased 

angry  with  me ;  I  feel  that  ^  ^ave  deserved  n  ^^^  ^^^^  ^^^  ^ 

then,'  O  Mary,  to  appease  hini,  ami  a  k  otji  g     ^^^  ^^  ^^.^,     ^ 

am  so  gmlty  that  he  will  ""^  1   ten  to  mc  it  P^^^^  ^^^.^^^^ 

,put  my  salvatioi.  in  X^-^^^  m^  whh -mp'as^ 

servant,  your  slave      Regaram  t^^^  ^.^  ^^^^^^^.^  .^^^  by 

my  sins.     Cause  him  to  '^^^'^^'^J";  ^    j^;,^,     q  Mary,  my  hope 
that  title  vou  have  full  authoiity  o\ei    mm.  j 

^1  i-ef ug'e,  I  throw  myself  m  ycnn-  ai-ms      Save  me  .^^  ^^^^^^^ 
Once  more,  we  ask  of  thej^^^^hre'a  «t   ^       ^^^  ^^.^^  ^^^  ^^^ 
would  not  each  of  these  wouls  in  the  mo  ^^^^^  ^^^ 

.cross,  have  been  blasphemous  against  Chi ist. 
have  been  an  n^s^^t  to  the  '^^  >,^  ."^^  ^f  Calvary,  have  received 
Would  the  humble  ^^^ ^'^^^^''ttM  she  have  felt  herself 
witn  pleasure  these  insipid  P^^''^'-      ''  .  •  ^  the  Roman  Catho- 
l.ono'd  by  these  rf'^VZ^^^^^^l     Never  would 
lies  repeat  every  day?     No   '^  thousand  t         ^^^  ^^^^  ^^^^^  ^^  ^^^ 

the  Holy  Virgin  at  the  ^""^^f,  ^^fop  'f m-^  the  cross,  have  con- 
great  victim  was  falling  '^f^eZl  .ahaflonofthc.vorld,the 
fented  to  have  heard  ^e^^e     -ille    .''^^  -^  ^J^  ,.       ^ed  with 

hope  of  sinners,  the  ^f^^.^^^^l^'l^^^w^  have  replied  to  the 
horror  these  words  of  ^l^^P^e  ^  '  ^'^^  ^^,^^  ^,,ones  for  the  sins  of 
thief:  "Ah!  wretch,  ^^hen  so  neam^^^^  ^^^^^^  ^^ 

the  world,  covered  with  ^'^  »^o?\*' J  .^^,g,  howcanyou  doubt 
mildness  and  of  his>ovecvenom^^^^^^^^^^^  ,,,,,, 

his  pity  for  you?  «  \^";  ^^^  ,^^11  as  yours,  by  his  grace.  Do 
is  mv  God,  he  is  '^^y^^jj;  "'' Xmd  to  save  sinners  that  he  des- 
vou  not  know  that  it  v^^as  to  seek  a  ^^.^  .^  ^^.^^ 

iended  from  heaven;  that  t  is  foiinne  ^^^^^  ^.^  feet  pierced  by 
his  head  lacerated  by  the  «^"  ;  ]^^^^  ^^^  ^-..t  his  blood  is  flowmg 
the  nails,  and  it  is  from  love  foi  sinne  ^  ^^.^  ^.^^  .^  ^  ^^^^^^ 

and  that  he  will  soon  expue?  He  ^^^P^^^^,^  ^^^  said:'Come 
sinners  to  himself.     To  the  gi  eatest  -        ^ ,     ^5^  ^j^h  was 

To  me  and  you  ^haU  ^^--^d  he  "end  of  sinners.  Do  not 
to  be  with  «i"ners--hew:s^  called      .^  ^^^^^   ^^^^^^  ^.^^^^,.^  f,.,,„a. 

fear,  then,  to  speak  to  him,  101 


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.fit 


See  the  marks  of  mildness  and  love  which  shine  through  the 
blood  which  covers  his  face.     It  is  he  alone  who  is  the  salvation 
of  the  world,  the  refuge  of  sinners,  the  gate  of  heaven.     It  is  on 
his  name  alone  we  must  call  to  be  saved.     Your  want  of  faith  m 
his  mercy  and  love  for  you  causes  him   more  suffering  than  the 
nails  which  pierce  his   hands   and   feet.     In  order  to  obtain  the 
grace  and  pardon  you  need,  address  yourself  to  him,  and  to  him 
alonc^  for  he  only  is  your  true  friend— your  brother,  full  of  affec- 
tion— your   father,  full  of  love,   and     your    merciful   Saviour. 
Speak  to  him,  then,  yoursolf,  and   do    hear  from  his  mouth  the 
sentence  of  pardon  which  is  already   written  in  his  heart!     But 
cease  to  insult  him,  and  to  insult  me  thus,  by  thinking  I  can  love 
you  more  than  he  loves  you,  and  that  I  can  be  more  compassion- 
ate towards  you  than  he  is  himself!" 

Let  not  our  dear  brethren,  who  are  still  in  the  bonds  of  Romish 
superstition,  be  deceived  by  the  idea  that  that  which  would  have 
been  unsuitable  and  blasphemous  in  the  mouth  of  the  penitent 
thief  is  altogether  suitable  and  Christian  to-day,  when  Jesus  is  in 
heaven.  For  our  Lord,  although  in  heaven,  is  as  near  to  every 
sinner,  to  hear  and  pardon  him,  as  he  was  to  the  thief  on  the  cross ; 
His  ear  is  no  further  distant  from  the  mouth  of  the  sinner  who, 
to-day,  asks  mercy  from  Him  than  it  was  from  the  crucified  thief; 
His  heart  is  not  less  kind  and  coifipassionate  to-day  than  it  was  at 
the  day  of  His  death ;  poor  sinners  are  not  less  dear  to  Him  to-day 
than  then.  And  He  has  no  more  need  now  than  then  to  be  forced 
by  His  mother  to  pai  Ion  the  penitent  thief. 
"  The  penitent  thief  had  no  need  of  an  intercessor  to  touch  the 

heart  of  Jesus Although  the  mother  of  the  Saviour  was 

there  present,  he  had  not  even  a  thought  of  addressing  her.  He 
understood  that  Jesus  was  his  friend,  his  Saviour  and  his  God;, 
and  he  did  not  deceive  himself.  ...  He  put  in  Jesus,  and  Jesus 
alone,  all  his  hope,  and  he  was  not  disappointed.  He  spoke  bold- 
ly to  Jesus  as  one  speaks  to  a  friend,  to  a  dear  brother,  and  he 
did  well;  for  it  was  thus,  as  it  is  still  thus,  that  Jesus  wishes  that 
we  should  speal   to  him. 

And  to  assert  that  Jesus  has  more  need,  to-day,  than  he  had 
then  to  be  urged  and^•oused  or  appeased  by  his  mother,  in  order 
to  hear  sinners  who  return  to  him,  would  be  a  childish  absurdity, 
if  not  an  awful  blasphemy. 

When  God,  in  His  great  mercy,  opens  the  eyes  of  a  Roman 
Catholic  to  the  errors  of  his  church,  the  first  sentiment  which  he 
experiences  is  one  of  unspeakable  joy  for  the  favor  which  he  has 
received.  But  the  second  thing  which  strikes  his  mind  and  heart 
is  a  feeling  of  astonishment  at  the  facility  and  sort  of  sincerity 
with  which  he  has  received  and  believed,  as  incontestible  truths, 
errors  and  superstitions  the  most  palpable  and  anti-Christian. 

Now,  the  error  which  is  dearest  and  most  deep-rooted  n\  the 
heart  of  a  Roman  Catholic  is,  that  the  shortest  and  suresl  way  to- 
be  heard  by  Jesus  Christ,  and  to  draw  upon  us  a  look  of  His. 


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„,ercy,  is  not  to  speak  to  him  directly  «"^«^l^f ;  j:;"\^\f.t\:eT 

which  she  has  so  long  forgotten,  '^'^^^^,^^^1.1  Christy 
is  no  sain,  in  heaven  «?"  '°«j  jy™,,  °  ^ce  o  «>"■  vepetttanee , 
there  is  no  ear  so  »"e"<'^^""  "'V°'  !„  ool^lv  or  so  mercifully 
there  is  not  in  heaven  a  mnul  or  heal  t  so  casi  y  o    so  i  j 

ouched  with  compassion  for  al  o>u;  m----  ;'^„"'h"  e  ,o  ^uch 
Christ;  there  is  not  a  person  n,  h«'V^"  j"^"  ^»^i,f  i,i„,elf  ap- 
pleasure  in  hearing  h.mself  "y^f' ;',,", ^/people  would  put 
proachcd  by  the  penitent  sume.  a  Jesvu.      he  p     p^  ^_j_ 

all  their  confidence  in  Jesus,  and  m  Jesus  aloue, 

'i:  stit!  wtlS  U'not'w  S  heigh,  of  folly  in  any  case  to  g. 
to  any  but  Jesus  to  obtain  ""y  *;^°^^-,„^i„<,  herself  and  wander- 

L°^^ 'o-'-™  \^-rStr.X:r;He  siplismsUrich 
hppians,  111.  b.)     it,  1'^}  '"*,  '^^'  .^      ^^    Church  of  Rome 

firm  the  basis  of  her  "^'^if^'^^^^'^^^^^^  people  every- 

would  hold  the  language  oEvaiga-^  ,^^^  ^/L./they  have 

where  would  know  that  >"  :/^^«^  '^'^  ^  ^^(^  ^^er  of  God;  then- 
all  the  treasures  of  mercy  ^fJf;,^^^"7;o,,i,fturn  towards  Jesus, 
thoughts,  their  hearts  and  f '^  ^°f  \^^^;  ^^at  the  power,  the 
and  Jesus  alone;  they  wouW  know,^^^^^^^  ,,ti^e,  always  effi- 
mercy  and  the  compassion  ^^JXtervce  of  the  penitent  sinner, 
caciois,  and  above  all,  ^^^^^ll^^^^^f^^^'™  ti  at  these  treasures  of 
Her  people  would  know,^t  the  -.e  tm^e,^^^^^  ^^^  ^ 

the  mercy  of  the  Saviour,  ^'^"j'^J'"  property  of  any  saints  in 
U.ed  by  -^^y^^^^:^:^:^:^l7cJy  Sinn  Jr  who  has 
CtT  t^'drl  tl^^^  ^^  '^^  repentance,  love  and 

^^^hatsoever  ye  shall  ask  from  my  ^  ^^^^^^^ 
Jesus  Christ,  'f '^^^^^^^f s'^orrri--  -n  -e  believe  that  it  is 
from  the  vxry  I'P^VcWretX  saints  in  order  to  propitiate  him? 
necessary  for  one  Jo  ^dditss  the  s^^"  ^    j^^^  ^eady  to  listen 

toT^^^lpU^^^^^^^ 


rT 


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saint  to  whom  I  might  wish  to  address  myself  ?  Can  the  human- 
itv  of  vSt.  Peter,  .St.  Paul  or  St.  Mary  he  more  perfect  than  the 
humanity  of  Jesus  Christ?  Why  shouhl  this  be?  And  where 
shall  we  find  reason  for  such  a  monstrous  doctrine?  To  assert, 
as  the  Church  of  Rome  docs,  that  the  saints,  being  nothing  above 
us  by  nature,  and  having  been  sinners  like  us,  know  better  ov.r 
miseries,  and  ought  to  sympathize  with  us  more  than  Jesus  Christ, 
becauseheisincapableof  sin,  istodeny  the  humanity  as  well  as 
the  divinity  of  the  Saviour:  it  is  to  deny  the  gospel  which  teaches 
us  that  Jesus  has  not  only  known  and  understood  our  miseries  in- 
finitely better  than  all  the  saints,  but  also  paid,  even  to  the  last 
■farthing,  the  debt  of  our  sins,  and  washed  them  away  in  his  blood. 
How  would  Jesus  have  been  able  to  bear  our  sins  upon  Him- 
self? how  could  He  have  charged  himself  with  our  iniquities  and 
paid  all  that  was  due  to  the  justice  of  God,  without  knowing  them 
perfectly,  without  comprehending  their  number,  their  nature  and 
their  malignity?  But,  above  all,  how  could  the  Saviour  of  the 
-world  have  undertaken  to  pay  the  debt  of  our  iniquities  if  these 
iniquities  had  not  excited  in  His  mind  a  degree  of  sympathy,  of 
•compassion  and  of  love  of  which  all  the  saints  together  are  in- 
.capable  ? 

Once  more:  let  us  forget,  for  a  moment,  that  Jesus  Christ  is 
God ;  let  us  suppose  that  He  is  only  a  man,  and  let  us  fix  our 
thoughts  on  this  human  person.     We  ask,  can  we  find  in  the 
Sacred  Scripture  a  single  expression  which  would  lead  us  tr  think 
that,  as  a  man,  Jesus  is  less  kind,  less  patient  or  less  merciful  to- 
wards us  than  St.  Peter,  St.  Paul  or  St.  Mary?     And  moreover 
in  order  that  I  mey  address  myself  to  one  saint  in  preferance  to 
another,  I  must  have  reason  to  believe  that  this  saint  will  be  more 
favorable  to  me  than  he  to  whom  I  have  preferred  him.     To  ad- 
dress myself  to  St.  Mary,  forexample,  in  preference  to  Jesus,  and 
to  ask  this  woman,  blessed  among  all  women,  to  speak  for  me  to 
Jesus  Christ,  I  must  believe  that  she  will  hear  and  answer  me 
more  surely  and  more  quickly  than  He.     For,  from  the  moment 
that  I  believe  that  Jesus  will  be  more  favorable  to  me  and  more 
compassionate  to  my  miseries  than  Mary  or  any  other  saint,  I 
would  go  to  Jesus.     Nothing  more  simple  and  more  natural,  and 
for  this  very  reason,  nothing  more  powerful  than  this  argument. 
Well,  plain  good  sense,  as  well  as  the  gospel,  tells  me  that  if  Jesus 
were  only  a  man  in  heaven,  He  would  be  there,  as  He  was  upon 
•earth,  the  most  compassionate,  the  most  loving,  the  most  charitable 
and  the  most  influential  of  holy  men.     And  consequently  (al- 
ways supposing  that  He  is  only  a  man)  even  then  I  would  ad- 
dress only  Him  in  my  prayers.     It  is  in  this  7nan   Jesus  that  I 
ought  to  put  my  greatest  confidence,  it  is  from  this  man   yesus 
that  T  should  expect  the  promptest  aid ;  it  is  to  this  man    yesus 
.that  I  oucjht  to  speak  with  most  faith  and  pleasure. 

And  the  most  ignorant,  as  well  as  the  most  learned  of  my 
brethern  of  the  Church  of  Rome  will  be  forced  to  confess  that 


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T  a.  .cm,  wisely.  They  -'^tsslrS'.ti- -"''' 
of  it,  be  deficient  in  wisdom.  .Heholv  humanity  of  Jesus 

wards  the  s  nner,  by  its  1-  f^'^"!"^^^,       Catholic  would  dare, 
No'     It  is  impossible  that  anj    ivuma  i  ^ 

designedly,  to  utter  ^ -^-^tfe::^n;m  SaJ^U^tunconscious- 
Well,  it  IS,  never  h^^^^^^^^^  ^^.^,^^  ^      ,,,,g  ,o  Jesus 

Iv  do  and  say  ^^ ^'^^    7^^>ii^  ^^ju  ,,ot  hear  them  because  of 
Christ,  under  the  pietext  that  lie  vv  ^^j.^^.^, 

their  sins,  and  when  they  addres  the     ants  w  .^  ^^^^^^^ 

to  be  more  ready  to  hear  '         P^^^  till  more  possible  and 

:::::c:na-itS\h:^:li  -«  will  Usten  to  us  with  pleasure, 

and  answer  us  in  His  'f  "'^^  .l^^J^^i;^,^,  ^^e  God  man,  to  shrink 
It  is,  then,  inconceivable  foll>    °  ^  ^^^^  "^^^^^^  ^i,^  God  man,  in 
from  speaking  to  the  G^^  ^^^^.f  ^U  o  r  h o P e  in  a  mere  man. 
order  to  address  a  man  and  ^^  P"\^;^;  ^i^^^.j^J,  ,„  abomination, 

and  infinitely  kind. 

WHY  I  WILL  NEVER  GO  BACK  TO  THE 
CHURCH  OF  ROME. 


To    THE    REV.    BISHOP    BoUKOET,    OF    MoNTKEAL. 

.  On  my  arrival  from  tV.  -i^X^^S^^^Sf  iT 

your  priests  ^"^  >'-"  P^.t^^^^ake  my  peace  with  your  Church, 
tried,  during  my  ^^'^  t'^^"^''' ^^^  "Z'  ,,  ii  unmitigated  false- 
I  do  not  want  to  tell  you  tb>u  ^"i^^^^^^  ^^^^^  .n,,  „.y  Lord, 
hood;  vou  know  it^^e   y^H  r^^  ,^  ,g,i„  to  the  ig- 

iy  i^f!^^'^'-'yt^f,l:Topc      An.\  allow'me  to  give  you  and 
nominious  yoke  of  the  ^"P^  .  reasons.' 

your  priests  and  your  P'.'^^^/^^^^^J^^'uc  Succession  from  Peter  to 
^  u(,^)  Your  ^^"g^"V  Yrcanno^^^      a  single  word  in  the 

Pius  IX.,  is  an  '"n^ostme.     You  -m  o^  .^.^^^^  ^^^^^  .^ 

holv  gospel  to  show  us  ttiat  ^^'^      tlv.t  the  superiority  or  pre- 
all.     You  k"ow  very  we  1   »  .o,   h.  t  the  sup^^^^^  .  y^^^^^P 

r^.Un;.^"E?::;; ".- «;  saviour  w.  ......  .y  «.  .weWe 


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apostles  who  would  be  the  First,  the  Leader,  the  Pope,  lie  al- 
ways answered  that  there  would  not  be  such   First,  Leader  or 
Pope  in  His  Church.     More  than  that.  He  positively  answered 
th.-  mother  of  Zebedee's  children  that  He  had  not  received  from 
His  Father  the  power  to  establish  one  of  His  apostles  over  the 
others.     'To  sit  on  my  rij;ht  hand  or  on  my  left  is  not  mine  to 
aive'  (Matt.  XX.  23.)     We  have  an  irrefutable  and  infallible 
proof  that  our  Saviour  never  put  Peter  at  the  head  of  the  apostles 
as  the  First,  the  Leader,  or  the  Pope,  as  you  call  your  Supreme 
Pontiff,  in  the  dispute  which  occurred  among  the  apostles  a  little 
before  His  death.     'And  there  was  also  a  strife  among  them 
which  of  them  should  be  counted  greatest.'     (Luke  xxii.  24.) 
Such  a  dispute  would  never  have  occurred  if  Jesus  Christ  had 
established  Peter  the  greatest  or  the  First  of  them.     They  would 
surely  have  known  it,  and  Jesus  Christ  would  have  answered, 
'Have  you  so  soon  forgotten  that  Peter  is  the  greatest  among 
you;  that  he  is  the  first  among  you,  from  the  day  in  which  I  ap- 
pointed him  the  fundamental  stone  of  my  church?' 

"But,  far  from  answering  thus,  the  Son  of  God  rebukes  His 
apostles,  and  tells  them  positively,  'The  Kings  of  the  Gentiles 
exercise  lordship  over  them.     .     .     .     But  it  shall   not  be  so 
among  you.'  (Luke  xxii.  23-25.)  Not  only  that  modernly  forged 
primacy  of  Peter  has  never  been  acknowledged  by  any  of  the 
apostles,  but  it  has  been  openly  and  positively  denied  by  St.  Paul. 
'For  he  that  wrought  effectually  in  Peter  to  the  apostleship  of 
the  circumcision,  the  same  was  mighty  in  me  towards  the  Gen- 
tiles.'    (Galatians  ii.  8.)     And  when  James,  Cephas  and  John, 
who' seemed  to  be  the  pillars,  perceived  the  grace  that  was  given 
unto  me,  they  gave  tome  and  Barnabas  the  right-hand  of  fellow, 
ship,  that  we  should  go  unto  the  heathen,  and  they  unto  the  cir- 
cumcision.'    Here  Peter  is  named  only  after  James,  a  thing  which 
never  could  have  been  done  by  St.  Paul,  if  he  had  known  any- 
thing of  the  marvellous  superiority  and  primacy  of  Peter  over 
the  rest  of  the  apostles.     Rut  plea.j  read  the  following  words  of 
Paul:     'But  when  Peter  was  come  to  Antioch,  I  withstood  him 
to  face,  because  he  was  to  blame.'     (Galatians  ii.  1 1.)     Is  it  not 
evident  that  Paul  had  not  the  least  idea  of  any  kind  of  superiority 
of  Peter  over  him  when  he  withstood  him  to  the  face;  and  still 
more  when  he  wrote  these  lines?     Is  it  not  clear  that  the  Holy 
Ghost  has  inspired  Paul  to    give    us   the   history  of  his  so  stern 
withstanding  to  the  face  of  Peter  that  we  might  be  seduced  by 
the  grand  imposture  of   the    supremacy    of    Peter,  which  is  the 
corner  stone  of  your  apostate  Church? 
"(2.)  I  will  never  be  a  Roman  Catholic,  for  the  Roman  Catholic 
Church  is  idolatrous.     You  worship    God!     Yes!  but  the  God 
whom  you  worship  is  made  with  a  wafer — it  is  a  wafer  god  that 
is  on  your  altar!     Every  hour  of  your  priestly  life  you  are  guilty 
of  the  crime  which  Aaron  committed  when  he  caused  the  Israel- 
ites to  worship  a  golden  calf.     The  only  differance  between  you 


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-vnd  Aaron  U  ihul  his  jrocl  wan  made  .)f  gold,  and  yours  is  made 
oOme  dough  baked  by  your  nuns  or  your  serva.itg.rls  between 
Tw    well-polished  and  heated  irons.     You  have  a  Chr.st  on  you 
xk-  r^   Yes!-and  you  are  very  devoted  and  truly  pious  toward 
IhuChrist-or  rather  those  Christs;  you  pra.se  then-  powers  and 
hr  mercies-   vou  sing  beautiful  songs  in  the.r  honor;  but  the 
^     -s"^";  ^ou  worship  are  spoken  ofby  our  S^mo;.  n,  the 
rwentv-fourth.  of  xMatthew.     'There  wdl  be  false  Ch  ists     .  anci 
h.^  iali  Ihow  great  signs   and   wonders;  ms.mu.chth..uf. 
wore  nossible  they  shall   deceive   the  very  elect   .  ..Whtietort 
^  the      hi  say  unto  you,  '  Behold  He  (Christ)  is  m  the  secret 
chambe    ;    c'  /ve  it  nol'     Now,  how  do  you  not  see  that  terrd>  e 

rv.t  Christ  e'veym  tie  power  to  make  your  god  with  the  en- 

I'Aven  w  fe^-      We  answ'er  you  that  Christ  Himself  had  not  the 

giaven  waie  .  j    Himself  with  an  engraved  waf  ei , 

KThIs  f"  i  c    h^fo  bid"    n  such  an  ahs„,a  ancHdolatrous  act, 

L      l:M„m,t  S  nai   in  the   midst  of  thunders  and  hghtnuigs, 

h/s"  ic    'Then  shau'not  make  unto   thee  any  p-en  intage,  or 

,•  ,.(  .mvHihii?  that  is  in  the  heaven  above,  or  that  is  in 

any  likeness  "^  ;">^^'"f  ^^f;,^  ,^^  ,^,ter  under  the  earth-thou 

r^'k  ll"  ?:tL^"  oi  m^^^^^^^^  He  could  n^ot  give  you  the 

break  "^    ™^  s cmi  ^^^^^^        ^^.^^^^.^^^  ^^^^^  ^^  y„„ 

permission  o    the  power  t  ^^^^^^  ^  ^  .^  . 

pretend  Pie  did,  to ^^^^^^^^  before    :;  for  this  idolatry !-rank 

T'  "?nl  Sm  V '  I  am   eady  to  meet  you  or  any  of  your  pnests 
shameful  ^^  «!•     >  "^  ';'^^  discussion  to  show  you,  with  the  help  of 
m  any  public  oi  F 'V^^*^  ^'  ^  His  body  and  drink  His 

God,  that  when  Ch-t  tok    yot^  to  eat  11  >  ^^^  ^^.^^ 

blood,  He  was  speak-g^^v^^^^^^  ^^^^  gh  Chfist  said,  I  will  eat  the 
He  would  .gt  the  Pas  o^^^^^^^^  eat  the  Passover;  for  the  simple 
^'''7th;t^lel;"ssr^^^^^^  the  exterminating  angel  over  Egypt 
'^  U^ThlZln  "But  the  lamb  which  was  eaten  in  remem- 
could  not  be  eaten  ^^^  ^^^^^  ^^^^^  ^^^^^^^  was  called 

brance  of  the  ^assovei  w  ^  ^^^^  ^^^^  ^^,^^^, 

the 'Passover.  ,  .^^  ^  ^"{eir       .  But  the  bread  which  repre- 
of  Christ  would  not  be  eaten        •  ^^^^^  ^^^^  ^^  ^^ 

sented  that  body  wo^^^^^e  eaten    .m      ^^^^^        ^^^^  ^^^^^  ^^^^^  ^^ 

f''  T.   hat  the  iJmb  was  called  the  'Passov'er,'  though  it  was 
n^^fl^'p  ioU  --j^^^^^  in  the  same  way  and  by  the  same  ruie  of 


language  that  when  we  look  at  the  marble  statue  of  Monseig--- 
neur  B?urget,  we  say,  'This  is  Monseigneur  Bourget,'  though  it 
is  not  Monseigneur  Bourget  at  all.  t,      ,  „, 

"?.  ^  I  will  never  be  a  Roman  Catholic,  because  every  Roman 
Catholc  bishop  and  priest  is  forced  to  perjure  himsef  every  time 
he  explains  a  text  of  the  Holy  Scriptures.     \  es!  though  it  is  a 
vei  y  big  and  hard  word,  it  is  the  truth.     From  the  day  that  you 
have  sworn,  when  you  were   ordained  a  priest,  to  interpre    the 
Holy  Scrip  ures  only  according  to  the  unanimous  consent  of  the 
hS;  fathers,  you  have  seldom  preached  on  a  text  of  the  Scrip- 
tures without  being  guilty  of  perjury.     For,  after  having  s  udied 
the  holy  fathers  with  some  attention,  1  am  ready  to  prove  to  you 
that  the  holy  fathers  have  been   unanimous   ni  only  one  thing, 
wSich  was  to  differ  on   almost   every   text  of  the  Scriptures  on 
which  they  have  written.     For  instance,  you  cannot  say  that  the 
books  of  the  Maccabees  are  inspired  without  perjurmg  yourself 
with  all  your  priests.     For  the  greatest  part  of  the  holy  fathers 
tell  you  that  these  books  are  not  inspired.     \  ou  cannot  without 
perjuring  yourself,  say,  when   Christ  said   to  Petei^  '  Thou  art 
Peter   and  upon  this  rock  I  will   build   my  Church,'  it  signified 
that  Peter  was  meant  by  this  rock,  and  that  he  is  the  corner-stone 
of  the  Church;  for  you  know  very  well(and  if  you  do  not  know 
it,  I  can  show  it  to  you)  that  St.  Augustine  and  many  other  holy 
fathers  positively  say  that   Chvht  meant  Htmseif  vfhen  he  said, 
*  Upon  this  rock  I  will  build  my  Church.' 

"(4  )  I  cannot  be  anymore  a  Roman  Catholic,  for  I  know  tha' 

AURICULAR  CONFESSION  IS  A  DIABOLICAL  INSTITUTION. 

"( O  I  will  never  be  a  Roman  Catholic,  for  I  have  seen  with 
my  eyes  the  inside  of  the  walls  of  your  church,  and  they  are  filled 
with  all  the  abominations  of  the  world.  Your  celibacy  is  of  dia- 
bolical institution.  Your  purgatory,  with  the  poor  souls  that 
burn  in  it,  and  are  saved  by  paying  y«"/°  ^^^fy/^^^P''' °^ 
diabolical  institution.  Your  waters  of  La  Sallette  and  Not  e 
Dame  De  Lourdes,  which  are  sold  in  your  palace,  are  of  diaboli- 
cal institution.  Your  forbidding  to  eat  meat  on  certain  days  is 
of  diabolical  institution.  Your  defence  of  not  reading  the  Holy 
Scriptures  is  of  diabolical  institution.  Your  infallible  Pope  and 
immaculate  Mother  of  God  are  of  diabolical  institution. 

"(6  )  With  the  help  of  God,I  will  never  think  of  makmg 
my  peace  with  the  Church  of  Rome,  for  her  priests,  bishops  and 
popes  have  shed  the  blood  of  millions  of  martyrs  from  John 
Huss  to  our  dear  brother  Hackett.  'On  your  Pope's  hands  I  see 
the  blood  of  the  7S,ooo  Protestants  slaughtered  the  "'Sbt  of  bt. 
Bartholomew,  and  the  blood  of  half  a  million  of  Christians 
slaughtered  in  the  mountains  of  Piedmont.' 

"(7  )  I  will  never  be  a  Roman   Catholic,  for  your  Church 
is  the  implacable   enemy  of  all  the  laws   of  God,  and  of  all  the 
jrties  and  privileges  of  men.     'Your  Church  has  de- 
nations  she 


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raded  and  brought  into  the  dust  and  the  mud  all 


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has  rulea;     I  mi.ht  .i;.  you  n^ny  c>th^  -sons  whv^^would 
never  be  a  Roman  Catholic,  but  T  ho  t  thej^^  .^  ^^^ 

show  to  my  dear  countrymen,  -h-^^  ;"^^^^'irv  iL  once  ac- 
n.ost  ignominious  ^^-^^^^'^^ ^^'^^^^^^'^^^^^  Ho.v  Woku 

YOUR    IIHH^S  ft"<J  WAFKU-CiODS. 


C.  CHINIQUY. 


A  ROMISH  BISHOP'S  TESTIMONY- 

1  1-  1  >e  fUf.  following*"  communication 
The  Kani'ciee  f ''--,P"^  ^^  .  ^^^^^ouJherhaps  containing 
fvon.  a  member  of  the  ^'Y'""^^ ' ^l^Z^e  studied  the  matter, 
nothing  new  or  strange  ^^[^^^J^^  Protestants  as  imagine 
the  statement  iiiade  mav  ^"^  "^"  ^",''  „,titv,tion,  of  their  great 
the  Church  of  Rome  t.>  be  a    ];  ' -1-;;^  ^^,     .en.'ain  unchanged. 

error.     The  P-^Pl-;;;^;'^^.  .^S',^'  -eadilv  depose  for  simple 
The  wearer  of  the    L  .aui  ^    '^  his  pre<lecessor,  six  cen- 

heresv  any  temporal  rule.  ^^*  ^^^  ;\'-^,i^^.,t,,,^^.  Count  Richmond 
turie;.H,o,deped  jm.lc^epn^ecW^h.^^  .^  ^^^^^ 

'''  ^^r^S'bv'churd   which  claims  the  right  of  enforcing  its 

and  dreaded  b)  a  ^^nuiLii  secular  arm. 

spiritual  decrees  by  the  ^--^,^;^'^;l.,>ur  readers  that  the  Rev. 

^„  one  of  your  j-^  .;-;^^>  '  ,^:'  .Xr.uidablesuit  instituted 
Mr.  Chiniquy  ^^^^  f  ^""^^  ^^  ^^'^.u  .^ss  him  and  his  people 
hv  the  Roman  Cathoh.  B.sh    >     '  ^'    P  i^^n  any  per- 

of  their  church  prupertv.  »^.  .^^^^^^^^  ^i,,  ^'sho;  had  to  make 
ticular.  about  the  startling  ^^^-]f^  ^.^^  ^^-J  laws  of  the 
hefore  the  C^ourt,  m   -'^^-'-^ ,;,  J^^,;^,'^    \hev    call    heretics. 

Snlg,t.r:is:S:;:tmXt-- every  one.^ 

von  with  a  re<iuesl  to  P"^^''^;;-  .^j  j,,,,  ,,„,ks  of  St.  Thomas 
^  The  Rev.  Mr.  ^  '-;^">,^  ^^  ^l^ting  him  to  say,  under  oath 
and  St  Ligour.  to  the  '^'^^;^; ';;'",,  ,,.rthe  highest  theological 
if  those  works  wcn;e  or  weie  ^^^'^  o.^r  the  world.  After 
authorities  in  the  C^-'^^'fJZ\>^t  of  the  Bishop  to  answer, 
long  and  serious  '>PP^-^'^> ";/  l^;"  ^  .  was  bound  to  answer,  the 
,hel^ourt  having  said  ^^  ^^;^^^^^;P,V,  ,,oked  upon  as  among 
Bishop  confessed  thai  those  wi  ^^^  ^^^^^^^ 

ard  works. 


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Then  the  Bishop  was  requested  ^^;^:::Z^^ 
into  English  the  foUowmg  ^-^^ ^^^J^X^^'  Thomas  and 
action  against  the  heretics,    as    txplamtci   oy 

Ligouvi:  .  .     ,i,.„,.:vpd  of  all  civil  commu- 

T.  "An  excummun|cated  "^^"^'^/^P^^;^^  ^   jf  he  is  not  tolera- 

vol.  9,  page  162.  ,  .  ,„,t  be  tolerated  because  they  de- 

3/uThough  ^^^'^'^T^^^X^  -^""^^  admonitiun, 

to' penance  a.  -ften  as  they  have  fa  len     hey  mu  t  ^^  ^^^.^ 

,t.l.„ee^of  .t.,t,  ■'^r'-^trr   "'".rihe;  ate  a„™.tea  to 
,;%      •     •    h„tthese„.e„eeof.leathm.,st„otbe,emovecl. 

';;:'°;U./rfr -rlatro'l  It^tlw  whieh  they  ate  h„.,„a 

;„  obey  hin,."--St.  Thomas,  ™1;  4;  Pf^^j  9^;„,  ,„,,„s;ht  before 
The  next  document  of    he  Chmch  ot   tton  ^ 

the  Court  ^vas  the  act  of  the  *- -'"';';^",  J;''^;',";'  ^^Vesy  tha.'ex- 

"We  excommunicate  and  »"'>«"™""'-'^  'y^.,i„1^,  f.,ith    con- 

a,ts  itself  ag»i-'.'h-  holy    onhodo>c  and  Cth,h    f.  th,^c^^_ 

.lemning  all  heretics,  bv  whateve,  "; "«  ™>  "  ^  j^^j,  ,^-,1,, 
for  though  their  faces  differ  thev  "V^'';;* '"S*;^';",7the  existins 
Such  as  are  condoned  are  ^^^ ^:^-^j:^\:  ,  ,..-,■ 

^o-tnirrco^fls^S:  If  pi'iests,  they  ^^^^X^- 
ded  from  their  respective  order,  and  the  r  P'°P=  '>  '  's,,,,,,,, 
the  use  of  the  church  in  which  'h"}  ha  =  o^^,  imluced,  and 
powers  of  all  ranks  and  degrees  "l"^  "  h"-  ""'^^  .7\„  swear  that 
ff  necessary,  compelled  by  «';'''^^'^t,'-rS    defense  of  the 

s:;:;Xa::":ir^r^de:rce.^_^ihec..c^^^ 
s  ~t;;;  >t;;er:hXr  iA;:i;:s  or  .mpjjai,  he 

shall  be  bound  to  abide  by  this  decree  i^^,,^j    ,„a  ,,. 

^L  W  tr^h;;^cJ:ti&:  ^»  .ear  hrs  .ernt^^;. 
Seretieardepravity,  'he  Me.^poh  ;,;  <^.c     he  Bishop^  ^^  ^^ 

province  shall  unue  11,  J'-^"""-"';'''.""  ,,,,,,  y,,  ,i„nified  to  the 
main  contumacious  a  whole  vear,  the  fait  shall  he  sign 


5^ 

Suoreme  Pontiff,  wh<,  will  declare  his  vassals  released  from  their 
„£  h^^cfhaU  enjoy  the  same  indulgence  and  be  protected  by 
or  encourage  them,  shaU  be  ^^i^o  ^    a<lmitted  as  a  wit- 

by  win  no,,  to  ---;;;;;;:^;'t;'  :;;;"on":an  b'i;,T-tiof, 

any  action  »S"'">  ,f  ">   P^^'""-.,,,",,  hi.  decision  shall  have  no 
aga,n»t  h'™.  J'hon.d    c  be  -  ^^'  <^»  •         .^  ,,i„^      yj,„„,,|  he  be 

been  repealed,  and  of  '^^^^^''^^^  J;  .^^  he  was  bound  under 
Church.  He  had  to  ^^^^^^^'^^^^^^^^^  T^/,,  ^^.enc^  of  God,  and  to 
pain  of  eternal  damnation  to  ^^-^y,"  ^^^  ^^^^.^^f^e^a  Hin.  elf  had 
i^ad  in  his  ^-^f-(^^::^S'^in  -i^o.!?  the  manner  in 

I  will  abstain  from  ^^^^^  ^:^:^^'  Bna  thil 
revelations  of  that  Roman  <-f  ^^J^^'; '^^f '  ^  "^he  Roman  Catholic 
it  is  the  duty  of  every  ct.zen  to  know  wh^^t  ^^^^^^^^^  ^j^^. 
bishops  and  priests  ""^le\^tand  by   Ube  t)^  ^,^^^,^,,ni.  to  know 

Stkphkn   Moore,  Attorney. 


52 

JESUIT'S  OATH. 

Here  is  the  oath  of  the  Jenuits,  pubUshed  when  Clement  XIV. 

■J:t.  bnll  h.  .773,  ^^^^^^,Uy   God,  the  blessed 
.1,  N-,  now  in  the  Presence  of   Ah    ^     >^^  ^^^^  ^.^essed 

Virgin  Mary,  the  blessed   M  chac     t^.e  ^  »^  ^^^_  ^^^^^ 

John  the  Baptist,  the  holy  ^^P^^^^^^^.;?^     ,,.,j  ^o  you  my  ghostly 
L  saints  and  sacred  hos;o    ^cavu  ,J,tal  reservation, 

Father,  do  declare  from  my  ^  '^^^  ; J;  j  ^^^j  i,  the  true  and  only 
that  the  i'ope  isChr,st's  %.ca  ^^^^^^,,^^,  and  that  by 
head  of  the  Umversa  ^  \ '"  ^^^  ^^'^  j^,,,  i^en  to  His  Hohness 
,,,tue  of  the  keys  of  -"^^  '^^  '  ^ e"  t o  cle^se  heretical  kings, 
bv  Jesus  Christ,  he  has  t^  ^  P  '^^"^  oove. nments,  all  bemg  d- 
princes,  states,  ^""^'^^^^"^'^f .^....^"t tn"  ^^"^  that  they  may  be 
legal  without  his  ^-f^^^^^  ^  .Umost  of  my  power,  I  wd 
safely  destroyed      ^hc  et me  t  ^^^^^  ^^^^^^,^,        „,,t 

aefendthisdoctnne  and  His  Holme  .^  ^^  ^^^  ^,^^^^.^1 

all  usurpers  of  ^he  he.etical     ^    t  '  ^^^  ^,,,,^,ed 

in  England,  and  ^U /^dheients,  n    ^^^        ,^  ^hrrch  of  Rome, 
and  heretical,  opposuig  the    ac  cd  Mo^^  ^,^,^  ^„  i.ere- 

M  do  'enounce  and  d.oxvnm>  :^  ,,,.  ,^  ,,,     f  then- 

tical  king,  pruK-e  o,  ^^utc    namea   ^^  ^^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^^^  ^^^^  ^j^^^,.^ 
inferior  magistrates^orattan..  <^.,^^^.i„ists,  Huguenots,  and 

„f  the  ClUirch  ot  England,  ^^j  ^^^^^/^i^^,,  to  be  damned  who 
other  Protestants  to  be  ^^^""-^^f^.X  declare  that  I  will  help, 
will  not  forsake  the  same.  I  ^^^  f  ^^  ;^^ie.sV  agents  in  any  place 
assist  and  advise  a U  or  any  of       s     lo  n  .         ^^^^  ^^^^.^^^^^^ 

wherever  I  shall  be,  --\,f  ,  ^,;;.'  u  heir  pretended  power, 
Pvotestant  doctrn.e  -;  ^  ;  ^^^^'^^.^.nise  and  declare,  notwith- 
legal  or  otherwise.     I  ^o  f"»t'^^  „^,^  ,eUg.on  here- 

standing  that  I  am  dispensed      '^h    to  a  ^^^  >^^^  .^^^^^.^^^^  ^^ 

tical  for  the  P:-P^^f''ylJ;^lJ^conn.eh,,asXheycntru^ 
keep  secret  and  pma  e  ^^^     .^^  j;-^^^    ,,arectlv,  but  execute  -dl 

me,  and  not  to  ^^^^■'^^'^''^^      'I^^^Zm-^^^^^^ 
which  shall  be  proposed,  gn  c  i  in  c h a  ^^^^^^^^ 

hv  vou  my  ghostly  Father,  o    by  an>        t^  ^^^^^  ^^^^^  j 

•  u  In  testimony    whereof     \  ^f  ^^^  ^^^  ,^^  same  further  with 


53 

T'ATHER   OHINiaXJY. 

TO  HOK.  I.YNCH,  AKCHBISHOP  OF  TOKONTC 

Mv  T.oKD:-The  l^'^^^^l^'Zll^ov  and  to  the  Minis- 
of  the  I  ith,  uddrcssea  to  the  Re  •  ^^%\.^^^,^,-^.,^  Church.  I 
tevs  of  the  Cieneral  Assembly  of  U  ^  ri       y  ^^^ 

come  to-day,  to  fulfil  my  P^^'^'^^'J^^^Vu^  say  that  she  had  re- 
1  had  accused  your  ^"'^"^'^^^^^Vi  f'^^^oor  heretics.     1  said  that 
ceived  from  God  the  power    o  ^'   ."^  P^^^^,^^^i,  ,„a  elsewhere,  it 
if  you  did  not  slaughter  us    t"-  ;^> '     ^^^^i,  ^o  do  it.     I  said  also,  • 

is  only  because  you  arc  -    ^^  .ong  enm^       ^  ^^ 

S^::i:;U:r-""  -f  us  w^n  they  can  do  .  w.h. 

out  any  danger  to  tl-'i;--,  P^;;;:";]',;^  hat  heretics  do  notde- 
I  said  that  your  best  thcoU>guvns  ^t*^^     ^^^^  Aquinas,  whom 

•SS>r,S:'  t  r^r-lnfo  *e  ..n..  -^  .He  .ecu..,- 

powers  to  be  extermmated.  j   ^^^j  ^n  that 

^'  \  'i:'::^r  i:;"Z  ^n  that  the  quotations  I  made 

::;t!  ThoXon  l^  ^"^^ect^- -^ -- Lve  the  works  of 
Here  is  my  answer  to  you.  ^iej^g^^  '.ns.  ^  ^^^^^  ^^^.  ^^^.^ 

St.  Thomas  just  now  on  ;^«>    ^a^e^  l£.ng\\sh,  respect- 

what  be  says  in  T-jtnymd  tt^xns  ate  >^^         P^^.^^  ^j^^^her 

fully  asking  your  lordship  to  teu 

or  not  my  translation  is  ^"^•re«:  ■         uiorum  demerito 

uQuunquam  l^^-'-'t^'^^i^^"^'^^"^  "Tonem  expectandi  sunt  ut  ad 
usquf>  tamen  ad  secundam  -"  ^^^^Q^^^lerof p.t secundam  cor- 
sanam  repeant  Ecdesiasu  t^dem  ^  ^^^^,^^„^f  ,,,„  ^,odo  excom- 
reptionem,insuoenoic  bstna^^  .Lularibus  principibus  extet- 
municatioms  sentcnti,  ^sed  ctia 
minandi  trudendi  sunt. 

THANSI-ATIOX. 

.       ^  Kp  tolerated  because  they  deserved 
.Though  heretics  must  not  be  tolerated  ^^^^^^^.^.^„^  ,i    y 

it  we  must  bear   -^h     -     ,     ;  ^^^  church.  But  those  who 
mav  ^^ebrought  back      the  t.  .^^  ^^^^.^.  errors   must 

after  a  second  a^^^^^'^'        :  ;^";,;^t  th.  v  must  be  delivered  to  the 
'':'^^-^'^^^^^^^'^     (St.  Thomas  Aqun.as,  4th 

v.,  page  90.)  .  ./ru^noh  heretics  who  repent  must 

•A^thepaso,.,he  -  >._^^rhou„^^^  - '^ey  have  fallen, they 

iilways  be  accepted  to  i 


54 


must  not,  in  consequence  of  that,  always  l.e  pciniittcd  to  enjoy 
the  benefits  of  this  life.     .     .     .     When  they  fall  agan,  they  are 

admitted  to  repent But  the  sentence  of  death  must 

not  be  removed."     (  St.  Thomas,  v.  4,  page  91.) 

Your  lordship  has  the  just  reputation  to  he  an  expert  man. 
You  then  know  that  in  suchsolemn  questions  as  are  discussed  just 
now  the  testimony  of  only  one  witness  does  not  suffice— 1  will 
then  -ive  you  another  testimony  to  prove  the  unpalatable  truths 
whic^i  1  proclaimed  in  the  presence  of  the  General  Assembly  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Canada,  vi/:  That  we  poor  heretics 
are  condemned  to  death,  and  are  declared  unworthy  to  live  side 
by  side  with  our  Roman  Catholic  neighbours.  That  testimony 
will  no  doubt,  be  accepted  as  good  and  sufficient  by  the  people 
of  Canada,  if  not  by  you,  since  it  is  the  testimony  of  your  own  in- 
fallible church  speaking  through  the   Council  of  the  Lateran, 

held  in  1 3 15:  u    ^        u 

•'  We  excommunicate  and  anathematize  every  heres>  that  exalts 
itself  a<'-ainst  the  holy  orthodox  and  Catholic  faith,  condemning 
•ill  heretics,  bv  whatever  name  they  may  be  known— for  though 
their  faces  differ,  thev  are  tied  together  by  their  tails.  Such  as 
are  condenmed  are  to  be  delivered  ')ver  to  the  existing  secular 
,50wers,  to  receive  due  punishment.  If  laymen  their  goods  must 
l,c  confiscated.  If  priests,  they  must  be  degraded  from  their  re- 
spective orders  and  their  property  applied  to  the  use  ot  the 
church  in  which  thev  ofi^ciatcd.  Secular  powers  of  all  ranks 
and  de<rrees  are  to  bo  warned,  induced,  and  if  necessary,  com- 
pelled 1)y  ecclesiastical  censures,  to  swear  that  they  will  exert 
themselves  to  the  utmost  in  the  defense  of  the  faith,  and  ex- 
tirpate all  heretics  denounced  bv  the  church  who  shall  be  foi  nd 
in  their  territories.  And  whenever  any  person  shall  assu'"^ 
government,  whether  it  be  spiritual  or  temporal,  he  shall  be 
bound  to  abide  by  this  decree. 

"If  any  temporal  lord,  after  having  been  admonished  and  re- 
quired by  the  church,  shall  neglect  to  clear  his  territory  of  here- 
tical depravity,  the  Metropolitan  and    Bishop  of  the  province 
shall    unite    in    excommunicating  him.     Should  he  remain  con- 
tumacious a   whole     year,    the    fact    shall    be    signified  to  the 
Supreme  Pontiff,  who  shall  declare  his  vassals  released  from 
their  alleo-iance  from  that  time,  and  will  bestow  his  territory  on 
Catholics',  to  be  occupied  by  them,  on  the  condition  of  extermin- 
■itincr  the  heretics  and  preserving  the  said  territory  in  the  taitli. 
"ratholics,  who  shall  assume  the  cross  for  the  extermmation 
of  heretics,  shall  enjoy    the   same    indulgences  and  be  protected 
bv  the  same  privilege;,  as    arc    granted    by    those  who  go  to  the 
help  of  the  Holy  Land.      We   decree  further,   that  all  who  mav 
have  dealings  with  heretics,  and   especially   such  as  receive  and 
defend,  and  encourage  them,  shall  be  excommunicated.  He  snaii 


not  DC  c 


a  witness. 


ligibl 


tblir  office. 


He  shall  not  be  admitted  as 


He  shall  neither  have  power  to  bequeath  his  property 


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,,  „i„,  ,„..  ,o  succeed  .«  any  ->?";-"«  „i'i;^ti"„g  aS 
any  action  "«t'' iTL^brrVXe  h";  de"sion"shall  Lve  no 
L^S:n:;™.auL-    a.t:je.    5^^ 

he  condemned  with  their  authon"  j^^f^.^iblc  <l.>cuments  to 

T  rnidd  oive  sou  thousands  of  othei    iniamuii, 
I  coiuu  j^ivi-  j^  4- T  ciwl  nf  the  savairc,  anti-social,  anti- 

show  the  exactness  of  what  I  said     7,'^';  ;^'.  ' 'r  '    jj  ^i^.t 

Christian,  and  bloody  l^^^vs  of  yom    ^^  ^  "^  ^^^^  \    ,,, -^u  impos^- 
the    heretics,  but  the  shor    hn  its  of  '     ,^"^^^^^  yj,,,,  in 

ble      Those  proofs  are  fully  given  in  mv  book      Y";„pose  vou 
It  Church  cif  Rome,"  which   s^ow  pid.h.h^       Uuppc  s ^^^,„ 

will  answer  me,  "Have  not  l^^^f  ^^^^i^'^'^^^^^^  h,ve  borrowed 

Yes,  they  have  passed  such  cruel  laws,  but  tncv 

them  from  you.  ,       ,     j    dunt^eons  of 

When  those  nations  ''•'»"^^.'>"  .    :;^"\,'i7,t   in  its  fulness  and 
•    Popery,theycoul    notseethe     gh,^ 

in  all  its  beauty.      U  took  some  u  ,_,,..,^.iJs  of  life  inside  the 

selves  from  the  putrid  leprosy  which  ^en tm  c^  evervwliere. 

walls   of   the   modern    ^a ^^^it  tt  Lt  i?mmn  ts  of  Popery  have 
But  you  know  as  well  as  I  do  that  these  1  emn  ^(.^ristian 

been  repudiated  more   than   ^^^-tm      a   o  b>  ^^  ^^^^  ^^ 

churches.     Every  yejir  since  I    J^^^",  J  i.niious   protest 

against  those  laws  of  blood  and  P'^^^';';";  bottomless  abyss  into 
otr  records  only  as  a  n-«^orandum  o  the^^  to^^^  ^J  ^ 
which  the  people  were  -' ^^^,;^;^,  ^^  laws  of  blood  and 
But  vou  know,  well,  my  loid,  t'^^\ '  '  "j.^^^,,,^.;,  ,,f  the  Vatican 
death  have  been  sanctioned  in  >-c>u  -J  Cm.  -'  .  ,,,  forever 
in  your  Church  U  was  ;^;;^  -d^J;-;^^  ,,^,,  ,nd  duty  of 
damned  if  you   have   an>    ''^»"J  ^     y^     punishment, 

your  Church  to  P"-^^  ^  ^^^^  ^^nt;  tie  numberless  and 
But,  my  lord,   et  us  *     -^  '  10  remembrance  o 

undeniable  proofs  wd.ich  ^  ^S^^^^*^;*^^^;  aenied  what  I  said 
vour  lordship,  to  make  >  o  b  ush  ^^^  ^f  j^^^^^^^.b  regulate  the 
about  the  "H-manly  un-Ch.^t  a  Py^^l^  ^^^^^^^  ,.hen  vou  have 
Roman  Catbolic  Church  to^u^^^  ^^;  .  ,^^  p^,^  ,,,  ;, 

your  opportunity.      L  '^«^  P/ ";    ,      {pnored  even  bv  you. 
possession  of  a  fact  to  public  tT>  >^f   |^^  q^,^.,,,"  ^ave  given 

You  know  bow  the  R^;;-«^^^^^  fj  ,^;     Y,^,  know  how  more 
the  lie,  with  a  v^^^eance  to  yo     de  m^^^  ^^^^,  ^^^^^^  ^^ 

than  2,000  good  T^o-^^"  "^^^^^^^  f,^  becuis  ■   1    had   preached  in   a 
kill  me,  the    17th  o    ^h-s  -^h   bccav^c^   ^^^^^^   P  ^^^^    ^^ 
Presbyterian  Church  on  the   tex  ,  ^^^j  ^^ 

eternal  life?''     More  ^ha"  one    um^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^,^^  ^ne  to 

r  had  not  providentiallv    had  t  ^  o  hea   ,  ^^^^  ^^^^  ^^  ^^^^ 


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been  killed  on  the  spot.  But  though  I  was  protected  bv  those 
overcoats,  my  head  and  shoulders  are  still  as  a  jelly  and  cause 
me  great  suffering.  A  kind  friend,  Mr.  Zot.que  Lufebvre,  B. 
C  L  who  heroically  put  himself  between  my  would-be-mur- 
derers and  me,  to  protect  my  life  at  the  risk  of  his  own,  came 
out/rom  the  broken  carriage  with  six  blcedmg  wounds  on  his 

'^The  citv  of  Quebec  is  known  to  be  the  most  Roman  Catholic 
citv  in  America,  and  perhaps  in  the  whole  world,  without  except- 
ing Rome  itself.      Its  population  has  the  well-earned  reputation 
to  be  moral,  peaceful,  respectable,  and   religious    as  they  under- 
stand those  words  among  the  Roman  Catholics.    1  he  people  who 
stoned  me  were  not  a  gathering  of  a  low-bred  mob;  it  was  com- 
posed of  well-dressed  men,  many   with  gold  spectacles:  it  was 
not  composed  of  drunkards;  there  was  not  a  single  cliunken  man 
seen  by  me  there ;  they  were  not  of  course,  what  is  ca  led  ''hberal 
Catholics,"  for  those'  "liberal    Catholics,"  though  born   in  the 
Church  of  Rome,  have  a  supreme  contempt  for  the  dogmas, 
practices,  and  teachings  of  the  priests.     Those  "liberal  Catholics 
who,  thanks  be  to  God,  are  fast  increasing,  are  »Mily  nominally 
Catholics- -they  remain  there  because  their  fathers  and  mothers 
were  so;  becau'se  also,  they  want  to  attract  the  people  to  then- 
stores,  sell  their  pills,  or  desire  to  be  elected  to  such  and  such 
offices  by  the  influence  of  the  priests.     They  laugh  at  your  initrc 
for  the/ know  it  is  nothing  but  the  oUl   bonnets  of  the  priests  o 
of  Bacchus,  representing    the    head    of    a    hsh.     Those  liberal 
Catholics  are   disgusted  with    the    bloody     laws    and    practices 
of  the  Church  of  Rome;  thev    would    not  for  anything,  molest, 
insult,  or  maltreat  a  heretic.    "Those  liberal  Catholics  are  m  favor 
of  liberty  and  conscience.     But  the  clergy  hate  and  fear  them 
Had  this  class  of  liberal  Catholics  been   numerous  in  Quebec,  1 
would  not  have  had  any   trouble.      But    Quebec  is,  with  a  very 
few  exceptions,  composed  of  true,   real,  sincere,  dev«>ted  Catho- 
lics     Thev  believe  sincerely,  with  your  grand  St    1  homas,  and 
with  your  Roman  Catholic  Church,  that  heretics  like  Ch.ni.,uy 
have  no  right  to  live ;  that  it  is  a  good  work  to  ki  1  them 

This  riot  of  Quebec,  seen  with  the  I  .;ht  of  the  teachings  of 
St  Thomas,  the  Councils  of  I.ateran,  Constance  and  the  V  atican, 
show  that  your  letter  to  the  General  Assembly  of  our  Presby- 
terian Church  is  one  of  the  greatest  blunders  that  your  lordship 
has  ever  made.  The  dust  that  you  wanted  to  throw  in  the  eyes 
of  mv  Presbyterian  brethren  is  all  on  your  face,  to-day,  as  dai  k, 
hideous  spots.  Your  friends  sincerely  feel  for  your  misfortune. 
For.mv  lord,  there  is  a  voice  in  the  stones  thrown  at  me ;  there 
is  a  voite  in  the  bruises  which  cover  mv  shoulders  and  my 
head,  there  is  a  voice  also  in  the  blood  shed  by  the  '-.end  who 
saved  my  life  at  the  peril  of  his  own,  which  speaks  loudei  and 
more  eloquently  than  you,  to  say    that    you  have  faded  in  your 


I 


57 
attempt  to  defeiul  your  church  A^innsi  what  I  said  at  the-  (icnc-ral 

'^'rhat'vou  may  better  understanil  this,  and  that  you  may  be  a 
little  mo're  modest  hereafter  on    that   subject,  1  se.u  you  by  the 
handsof  the  Venerable    Secretary    of    our    Cieneral   Assembly, 
the  Reverend  Mr.  Reid,  D.   D.,  one  of  the   lumdreds  of  s  ones 
which  vvounde<l  me,  with  a  part  of  the    handkerchief  reddened 
with  the  blood  of  Mr.  Zotique  Lefebvre,  15.  L.  L.,  who  received 
six  wounds  on  his  face,  when   heroically   standin-  by  me  in  that 
hour  of  supreme  danger  for  my  life.     Please  look  at  that  stone, 
look  at  that  blood  also;  they  will    teach   you  a  lesson  which  .t  is 
unite  time  for  vou  and  all    the  priests  to    learn.     1  hey  will  tell 
vou  that  your  Church  of    Rome   is  the    same  to-day  as  she  was 
when  she  slaughtered  the  hundreds  of  thousands  of  P.edmontese 
with  the  sword  of  France;  that  stone  and  thatblood  will  tell  you 
what  every  one  knows,  among  the  disciples  of  the  Gospel,  tha 
vour  church  of  to-day  is  the  '  very  same    church  which  p  anned 
'the  massacres  of  St.  Bartholomew,  the  gunpowder  piot   the  re- 
vocation of  the  Edict  of  Nantes,andthedeathsof  more  than  half 
a  million  of   French   Huguenots  on  their  way  to  exile.      i  hat 
stone  and  that  blood  will  tell  you  that  your  church  to-day  is  the 
same  as  she  was  when  she  lighted  the  five  thousand  auto-da-fes, 
where  ten  million  martyrs  lost  their  lives  in  all  the  great  cities 
of  Europe,  before  God  raised  the  German  giant  who  gave  it  the 

deadly  blow  you  know.  ,.*  .u« 

Please,  mv  lord,  put  that    stone    and    that  blood  in  one  of  the 
most  conspicuous  places  of  your  palace,  that  you  may  look  at 
them   when  the  devil  will  come  again  to  throw  you  into  some 
ignominious  and  inextricable  slough,  as  the  one  into  which  you 
fell  in  vour  courageous  but   vain    attempt  to  refute  me.     When 
that  faiher  of  lies  will  try  again  to  make  "f  »f  y'^.i"' Pe"  to  deny 
the  bloody  deeds  of  your  church,  you   will  telj  him,  '  Get  thee 
hence,  Satan,  for  it  "is  written  in  our  most  approved  book  ot 
theoloo-y,  St.  Thomas,  that  'we  must  exterminate  all  the  heretics. 
Get  thee  hence,  Satan;  for  you  will  not  any  more  induce  me  to 
call  old  Chirriquv  insane,  for  saying  that  our  church  is  as  bloody 
as  ever-  for  it  is\vrittcn   in   the   Council   of    Lateran  that  those 
who  arm   themselves   for  the  extermination   of  heretics   are  as 
blessed  by  God  as  those  who  went  formerly  to  the  rescue  of  the 

Holy  Land."  .  ,     , 

Yes,  my  lord;  keep  that  stone  and  that  blood  before  vour  eyes 
and  when  T  or  somebody  else  will  again  warn   the  d.scip  es  of 
the  Gospel  against  the  dangers  ahead  from   Rome  vou  will  no 
compromise  yourself  any  more  by  writing   things  which  are  not 
only  against  all    the   rec<n-ds   of  history,   but  against  the  public 
teachings  of  all  vour  popes,  your  councils  ami  your  theolgians 
With  that  blood  before  vour  eyes,  the  devil  will  lose  much  of 
his  power  over  you  and  be  forced  to  give  up  his  old  tacticts  ot 


I 


3S 

makin;,^  you  deny,  ilcny,  deny,  the  most  evident  facts,  and  the 

most  uuimpeachable  records  of  history. 

My  dear  Bishop  Lynch,  before  talcing  leave  of  you  this  day, 

allow  me  to  ask  a  favor  from  your  lordship.     If  you  grant  it,  1 

will  retract  what  I  have  said    of  the  anti-social  and  anti-Christ- 

ian  laws  and  practices  of  your  Church. 

Let  your  lordship  say  anathemas  to  the  Councils  of  Constance 

and  Lateral!  for  the  decrees  of  banishment  and  death,  thev'  pass- 
ed over  all  those  who  differed  in  religion  from  them.  1  ell  us 
in  plain  and  good  English,  that  you  condemn  those  Councils  for 
the  burnincr  of  John  IIuss,  and  the  blood  they  caused  to  be  shed 
all  over  Europe,  under  the  pretext  of  religion;  tell  us  that  those 
Councils  were  the  greatest  enemies  of  the  Gospel,  that  instead  ot 
beincr  .ruideil  by  the  spirit  of  God,  they  were  guided  by  the 
spirif  oi  Satan,  when  they  caused  so  many  millions  of  men, 
vvomen,  and  children  to  be  slaughtered  for  refusing  to  obey  the 

Pope.  .  <•    ,.1        1 

And  when  you  will  have  condemned  the  action  of  the  de- 
praved men  who  composed  those  Councils,  you  will  honestly 
and  bravely  declare  that  your  Thomas  Aquinas,  instead  of  being 
a  saint,  was  a  bloody  monster,  when  he  wrote  that  the  Church  ot 
Christ  is  to  deliver  the  heretics  to  the  secular  powers  to  be  exter- 

"^  TelTu's  also,  that  the  present  Pope  Leo  XIIL  ought  to  be  the 
object  of  the  execration  of    the    whole    world  for  having  lately 
ordered  that  that  bloody  monster's  theology  should  be  taught  in 
all  the  colleges,  academies,    seminaries,    and    universities  of  the 
Church  of   Rome,  all  over  the  world,  as  the  best,  truest    and 
most  reliable  exponent  of  the  doctrines  of  the  Church  of  Christ. 
If  you  grant  me  the   favor   I    ask,    we  will  believe  that  your 
lordship  was  honest  when  you  denied  what  I  said  of  the  savage, 
cruel  and  diabolical  laws  and  practices  of  the  Church  of  Rome 
towards  the  heretics.     But  if  you  refuse  to  grant  my  request,  we 
will  believe  that  vou  are    still',   in    heart    and    will,  submitted  to 
those  laws  and  practices,  and    that    you    tried    to  deceive,  after 
having  deceived  yourself,  when  you  presented  your  bloodthirsty 
church  with  the  i'ose  colors  we  find  in  your  letter  to  our  General 

Assembly.  ,      ,       x      •  i    u     * 

In  my  next,  I  will  give  you  the    proofs    of  what  I  «a.d  abou 
the  idolatry  of  your  church,  and   with  the    help  of  God,  1  will 
refute  what  you  said  to  defend  her  practices. 

Truly  yours, 

"C.  CHINIQUY. 


I 


// 


Dr.JUSTIN  D.FULTON 


AND 


DaM^GLYNN 

READ  what  this  great  preacher  says  concerning  the  tricks 
^oVthe  Roma'n  Cafholic  ^-rchy.  and  then  send  - 
Father  Chiniquy  s  works,  where  you  will  find  chronicled  truth- 
fullylthe  experiences 


of  a'  man  who  has 
come  out  of  dark- 
ness into  light. 

DR.  FULTON 

andDR.McGLYNN 

HAVE  SAID 

NOTHING 

EQUAL    TO    THE 

REVELATIONS 

CONTAINED  IN 

patl7er 


(ireat 
U/orK8. 


New  York,  Feb.  5.     !>•  f  cOlynn,  at  h  »< 
anti-povertv  meeting  to-night  said :     With- 
out a  moral  revolution  I  shall  never  preaeh 
in  St.Stephen's  Church,  or  in  any  Catholic 
church    again.     The  machine  won't    8end 
n^  back,  and  now  let  me  end  the  matter^ 
don't  want  to  go  back.     I  cant  go  back 
without  retracing  all     have  said  here  and 
1  will  never  take  back  one  jot  or  tittle  of 
that      I  will  never,  never,  never  allow  any 
man  or  men  to  supervise  my  doings  among 
Z  fellow  men.     The  first  letter  which  I 
shall  send  to  Rome  on  this  business--and 
one  which  I  shall  send  speedily  ywijl  be 
„nl  disavowing  the  action  of  kind  friends 
who  have  sought,  with  my  tacit  consent,  to 
reopen  my  cafe  there.     If  those  who  love 
me  can't  go  back  to  St.  Stephen's  without 
sacrificini  their  manhood  and  womanhood 
in  the  way  of  promises  and  apologies^  I  say 
to  them,  don't  go  back,  and  trust  to  God  to 
provide  the  sacraments.  Have  no  fear  for 
me      I  give  them  warning  now  that  if  they 
■ittempt  to  hound  me  with  the  arts  of  which 
thev  are  such  masters,  I  will  expose  them. 
I  have  onlv  told  things  which  politicians 
and  well  informed  people  have  known  m 
the  past,  but  I  give  them  warning  that  I  am 
full  of  knowledge  of  events,   the  tale  of 
which    will    make  the  country  too  hot  to 
hold  them.     They  had  better  let  me  alone 

Dr  McGlynn  never  spoke  so  vehement- 
ly before  He  had  the  women  all  sobbing 
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Australia,  New  Zealand,  France,  Spain,  and  Italy,  have  been  enormous 
In  the  United  States  it  has  reached  its  Thirty-second  Edition,  and  the  demand 

still  continues.  ■   ^u     i.     i       tf 

Legislators,  students,  teachers,  parents,  should  read  the  book,  its 
author  has  done  good  service  in  the  caufic  of  Protestantism,  and  he  speaks 
from  a  personal  experience  in  the  workings  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church 
where  he  held  high  position. 

296  pages,  Cloth,  8vo,  with  portrait  of  author.    Price,  $1.00. 
Sent,  post-paid,  to  any  address  on  receipt  of  price. 


ADAM  CRAIG,  PUBLISHER, 

77   A.    79   JACKSON    STREET,    CHICAGO. 


